Mumbai woes...
One full day of rains and all the claims of the city bosses went swirling down the drain. Sorry, they didn't, because the drains are clogged and nothing flows through them except kickbacks. Harbor line trains, maybe the most neglected of all the already neglected civic amneties for Mumbai-kars, grinded to a halt. The journalist on TV was talking bull-shit when she said trains were late by 15 mins. So very wrong. An hour long journey took me around 5 hours to complete today. The trains was crawling at a speed of few cm / min. It Isn't funny that while many commuters knew exactly the problem areas, which places like Kurla, Chunabhatti etc. are prone to getting water logged, the authorities still feigns surprise on each occasion. As it turned out, the common public were spot on, on the problem assessment all the time. " It happens each year", they said with a shrug. I wonder, why then the city planners and administrators of the future Shan