India`s financial capital and its municipal corporation, with one of the largest budgets in the country, has been without public elected representatives for 17 long months now. Does anyone miss them, has the city been functioning as it should, or is something being missed out?

mid-day’s round-table conference to discuss the repercussions had a bare-all debate on the subject among city’s leading activists, ALMS and experts on one side, and former experienced corporators, including a former mayor, on the other. The outcome was a wide range of opinions and views ranging from what exactly the city is missing, what are the constitutional duties of corporators, need for orientation and work process for new corporators, and also how they work along with activists and ALMs hand-in-hand without having a “us and them divide.”