One month. Okay, we’ll be kinder. Three months. That’s the time limit we are willing to put our money on to see if the freshly redone Khada Parsi statue will survive the wrath of our nearly non-existent civic sense.

It was undoubtedly heartwarming, and even reassuring, to note that city newspapers carried reports of this landmark being reopened to the public, especially in this day and age where jostling for column space can be compared to finding a toehold in a Kalyan fast.