It really amazes me that our cities have no infrastructure to handle any natural disaster. What is the relevance of development when we cant keep together what we already have. Mumbai our financial capital was literally washed out. The city that never stops has halted. Only reason improper drainage system, any coastal city is supposed to have very good drain system because you live next to a sea and potentially you can be porne to flooding. We need a total revamp of infrastructure across all metros, 1) To handle disasters like this, 2) To handle the exploding and expanding population and 3) handle traffic.
We Indians are so self centered that we just dont seem to care what happens to our cities, our boundries limit to our homes, we want all comforts, the latest cars, the dream house, but think... what good are all those if it gets drowned when there is a bit of more rain than usual. The best we are at doing is to point fingers at someone, when something like this happens. This event happened to wake us from a sleep, it washed our eyes from an illusion that all is fine. We are at a juncture of an economic revolution, if we want to reap the best of it we need to act now or we will loose big time. We require a change, a change of thinking at personal and a very fundamental level.
"Simply speaking lets lay the foundation first and then start building."
