Volunteers planting trees in Allahabad, in July this year, as part of the commitment India made at the Paris Climate Conference in December 2015. Pic/AP

To call 2016 an awful year would be like referring to BMC as an inefficient organisation. Everyone knows it, and the best way to deal with it is to keep one's head down and get on with the business of life. We lost a lot of great artistes, for a start. Then, there were terrorist attacks almost every month, Donald Trump became one of the most powerful individuals on Earth, and we wasted our final weeks of the year by standing in line for money that actually belongs to us.