Selfless soul

He is an ordinary person with a mission extraordinary. A retired govt. official K R Gurukar has passion for planting saplings on city sidewalks. He has been doing it on a daily basis for the last decade or more. He plants honge, a species suited to Mysore. Goats and stray cows don't fancy honge leaves, he says.
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The Patil family is passionate about planting trees . Ravi Shankar Patil, an Air Force officer posted on field, mobilizes children in his JP Nagar neighbourhood for tree-planting whenever he comes to Mysore on home leave. His parents join Ravi and the children in planting on vacant space in their locality.