Karnataka is witnessing the election tamasha — a great spectacle with plenty of sound and fury. There are manifestos, but one wonders whether even the candidates bother to read them. There is little of substance to help voters decide between political parties on the basis of how they will fix the myriad problems that plague our cities and why they are deserving of our vote. One cannot help thinking of the entire exercise as akin to rearranging the deck chairs of the Titanic as it heads towards the iceberg. There is hardly any talk of necessary. . .
