The Prime Minister picking up the broom and consequently taking on the challenge of a Cleaner India through the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) is most commendable. We have had sightings of symbolic cleaning by ministers, celebrities and, more importantly, ordinary citizens. All of this is laudable since it is through greater public awareness and citizens playing their role in a civil society that such intractable problems can ever be solved. The cynics, though, wonder whether this will be a limited one-day wonder or is sustainable systemic change possible. Our experience in Bengaluru which has gone from garden to garbage. . .