Rain rain....in Mumbai again.

Here comes the rain... the view is just heavenly from my window. The trees are lush green and swaying in the wind, the flowers blooming, the sweet pitter patter of rain drops, the cloudy grey sky, the wet surroundings. Really heavenly! Looks great, feel like a walk in the rain. And i go down, to have my share of fun. But looking around i feel, i should have just stayed at home, curled up under my blanky, reading a nice book, with a steaming cuppa cappuchino. The rain suddenly turned so ugly, the roads flooded, people angry faced, garbage floating in the nallahs, broken branches of trees lying around in the middle of the road. At first i thought that the rains brought such a relief from the sweltering heat, but now it also brought back some old memories.
Not good ones, not bad ones either, but the ones that i thought were a one in a life time experience. It turns out it's not a once in a life time experience. It may happen again. I am talking about the 26/7 deluge, i myself was stuck the entire time away from my home, only to reach home on the third day. And i guess now it's gonna happen one again. The rains are spelling havoc, or so it seems, is it the rain that's bothering or the infrastructure of the city that's obnoxious. It's really irking to see people tugging on to their belongings, holding them high up in the air and looking for a way out of the formed rivulet of gutter water in the low lying areas. So much for the empty promises made by the Government and the Municipal Corporation of Mumbai.
I think about the times when we were being ruled by the British, at least the drainage systems they put in the South Mumbai are more than 100 years old, but yet i haven't heard a flooding anywhere there. And the drainage systems they put in are still alive and working. But the facilities given to us tax payers in the suburbs where people account for the 55% tax payed to the government are rubbish, unsatisfactory. We are just being duped of our money. With no strategies, disaster management facilities, this is a shame, our money being flown like water over nothing. It's become really depressing to watch Mumbai sink like this.