The first showers hit Mumbai yesterday and the word of the day was panic. The streets were flooded. Drains were clogged. Trains stopped mid-track. Traffic was crawling. Networks were down. And people were angry. All this just on day one of the four month long monsoon season. Maybe it’s time we outsource the city management to private players. At least then we’ll be able to enjoy a break from the sun without breaking out into a cold sweat every single time.
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Or, if we just accept that it's flooded, we could all sit back, the bankers, the clerks, the traders and barbers, and watch the rain slant from the sky, and watch the earth running with it. The problem is the assumption that work has to go on, that we'll die if it doesn't. We won't die. Not with steaming chai and a book...
Ha! and that's exactly what i did today! But the reason for angst isn't that it flooded. It's just that it shouldn't have flooded! But we'll just side-step the lousy bureaucracy and focus on the steaming chai and the books!
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