Kingfisher Airlines may be spinning out of control, if the business papers are to be believed, but in Patna, the Jet Set, whether they travel in cattle class or not are the reason why about four thousand trees in Patna Zoo are going to have their heads lopped off. When the common people and the environmentally concerned suggest that the airport could well be moved to Bihta, the jet set wrings its collective hands in horror. But what’s the big deal? The Bihta Airport would be about 30 kilometres from the heart of Patna. If Patna wants to become a ‘metro’, its denizens have...