This paper's front page story about the Cooperage Bandstand garden awaiting an opening as the mayor is too tied up to inaugurate it evinced plenty of oh-oh-here-we-go-again reactions. We have seen so many infrastructure projects awaiting openings, because Mr So and So VIP is unavailable or too busy to cut the ribbon.

In Mumbai, where people are deprived of open spaces, it is especially disappointing to see the endless wait because that rigmarole is yet to happen. That rigmarole reads: ribbon cutting. Applause. Speeches. Applause. Netas garlanded. More applause. Finally VIPs and coterie taken around the space by organisers and some hangers on, hoping to get their selfie-moment, with the so-called important person.