A modern Bhagiratha in the making

Film maker-contractor-corporator, Munirathna is all smiles as he steps out of his home in Malleshwaram to do a ward yatra with DNA on Thursday. He is excited because he is setting a record as the first city corporator to conduct a private survey and spend from his ‘own pocket’ to lay a parallel water pipeline to the BWSSB so that residents have a water source to fall back on. As he goes around, Muni seems to draw both awe and fear. He is the patriarch who will preside over his small fie…