Whitewashed by nature

Coke and Pepsi advertisements painted on rocks along the 56-kilometre stretch from Manali to Rohtang Pass will not be scraped for a little while longer. Instead, a sheet of ice will cover the boulders. The drive to remove the ads of the soft drink multinational giants and other leading Indian companies en route to the pass in Himachal Pradesh has been deferred till March 2003 due to snowfall in the region. Nature, it seems, has taken care of the defacement