So, its World Environment Day. The grapevine has it that its the facile tokenism which has taken off more than real environmentally sound practices. Gobar Times decided to find out by preparing a short checklist for you to see if you've done your honest environmentalist bit for the day yet:

1. Did you take a break from taking your private vehicle to school/work and hop on to the bus/metro/carpool instead?
2. Did you pull the curtains, switch on the fan and and NOT put on your AC?
3. Did you take a bucket bath instead of letting the shower power on?
4. Did you try to cool off with a Shikanji or Thandai instead of "opening happiness" with a carbonated drink?
5. Did you collect your RO leftover to water plants in your home/garden?
6. And did you say you segregated the wet and dry kitchen waste?

Well done, we say. But do us proud tomorrow as well, will you? And the day, week, month and year after?

Because nothing that we do today gives us a license to degrade the environment for the remaining year,does it? Its 24/7/365 or a no-show for the future.