Dear readers,

It’s been a long time since I last wrote. I had been out of the city for a short while... to Nainital. It’s a city built around a Tal (lake). The city is known for schools and hotels, both of which are present in copious amounts. But I doubt that the city will not be known for its cleanliness in near future. A commendable effort has been made towards making the city clean and green there in Nainital. Named the ‘Butterfly’ scheme, the effort aims at making the city cleaner by removal of the most fatal enemy of the soil, Polythene. The program functions through the collection of poly-bags from the city dwellers from there houses and then their dumping in special garbage boxes that are scattered throughout the town and all this at bare minimum of expense. Clearly, the people responsible for this effort have plenty of grey cells and will get both environmental awareness and cleanliness through this effort.

As I woke up in my bed at Nainital and opened up the curtains to look at the beautiful lake, I was astonished to see large whirlpools on the surface. I rubbed my eyes in order to ensure that I was not hallucinating, but still, the typhoons were intact. I thought that it might be some sort of mirage and let the matter rest.

The next day when I was on a stroll with two of my local friends I had made, on the Thandi sadak (Cold road) that runs along the lake, I saw the whirlpools again but they seemed less of whirlpools now and seemed to be large circular disturbances made as if some creature was breathing from the depths of the lake. Mesmerized, II asked my friend about the strange phenomenon. It was then when I came to know of the hi-tech reality behind the veil, the municipal commission of Nainital, troubled with the problems like lake continuously getting polluted and the fauna in lake dying, nearly a year back placed some highly sophisticated machinery inside the lake that maintains the oxygen levels as well as cleaned the lake once of all the garbage with further help from the 'butterfly' scheme. Appreciable work my friends! Truly commendable!

Regards,

Abhishek.