The nation’s assets, facing the prospect of getting lost have currently emerged in public domain, sending people, forming themselves into voluntary groups, on a saving-spree, some of them not giving up, such as in Mysuru. The phenomenon of saving the assets has its origins in the event of God taking the form of fish to save the Vedas and later their forms including human to save the devotees from evil elements from time to time. In the current scenario, people raising their voice to save this, save that at national, regional, local and other levels may be likened to be playing God in the saving game. The administration is made to adorn the role of demons in many such saving actions. While most of the assets lined up for saving have physical features, the set of moral values, taken up by the scholarly fraternity in their cause is in a different class, posing many hurdles in addressing the issues, which are clear in knowledgeable circles.

Environment, with its wide-ranging definition, rivers and all other sources of water as well as green cover and the denizens of forests facing denudation in the name of development have been relegated to the back-burner amidst vociferous calls to protect these invaluable assets of the nation.

Blaming past generations for their various acts bringing the nation to its present dismal state may sound fascinating, but the blame-game is unrewarding unless their acts of omission and commission in taking care of the nation’s assets are studied and lessons learnt for avoiding those mistakes and misadventures. Undoubtedly, the biggest lesson for the nation’s people emerges from the mutually directed calls of the heavy-weights in the different political parties to rid the country from their clutches. However, there are no signs of the people learning this lesson and translating it into action. The multitude of the nation’s other assets getting lost year-on-year fall into place, in spite of every one of them belonging to the citizens.

The goings on in Mysuru, witnessing the decline in the health of its water bodies in general and Kukkarahalli Lake in particular as well as chopping of valuable giant trees for various reasons prompts one to be pessimistic about winning in the battle to save the land’s assets, mocking at the unrelenting saving-spree drawing people in large numbers for the cause.