Can you believe this rain?

It's been raining for the last couple of hours. Apologies. I should have said...It's POURING!

Visibility is really low and there is no hope of even crossing buildings or going out for lunch (not that I want to) without getting drenched.

But what I noticed was that the traffic flow is even, the water never gets clogged up, the underground expressways don't have accumulation and the city barely notices the rain. It's an incidental. Something that happens on and off.

The only thing that happens of any significance, for people like me who don't drive, is that cabs are a lot harder to find and so we have to call for them. That's a little bit of an inconvenience that we have ourselves to blame. Had we a car to move around, that problem would be resolved as well.

I was just wondering, what if this was Mumbai? The city would have come to a standstill by now. All the train tracks would have been underwater and the traffic would have been maddening. Tempers would be flying and in general, there would be chaos.

Why doesn't the city learn? Year after year, they face the monsoon as if they were seeing rain for the first time. There is no preparation, no contingency, no change. It's not like the city cannot be made resilient to the rains. It's just that nobody's doing anything to make it that way.

I hope they do. Else that beautiful, vibrant city is going to be tagged forever as a disaster during the rains.