Fed up with the poor lighting along Outer Ring Road, Anindita Nayak decided to map the reality. Quite literally. With pen, paper and her phone, she set out to survey streetlights along Marathahalli-Silk Board, Sarjapur Road, and HSR Layout in May this year. The product manager ended up with more grey dots than orange ones on her map, that is 655 defunct lights and 401 functional ones, respectively. She then complained at the BBMP portal and tweeted to the city mayor. “No one took action,” she recalls, “but I also didn’t follow up,” she admits. Citizen groups, however, continue to cite her work, cleverly called The Silence of the Lamps.