What can you do in 20 minutes? If you are in Bengaluru, it could take longer to cover just one kilometre in a car. It could take longer to get a cup of filter coffee. But that’s all the time it took the Karnataka legislature to introduce a law that could dismantle environmental protections for parks.
No floor debate. No public conversation. Just a fast-tracked amendment that gives executive committees a permanent key to carve up 5% of any state park. A metro station, a concrete building for the district administration, or a parking lot can be built here. “5%” sounds like a small, harmless number. But let's do the math.
