Heavy Rains in Mumbai – A city drenched.

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Today, Mumbai saw some of the hardest pre-monsoon showers, leading some of us, the
common people, to imagine if such a downpour can be called pre-monsoon rain at
all?

While some people were glad out step out of their houses and have some fun
in the rain, children were found running bare feet in grassy lawns at public
parks, and couples were found holding hands and walking under one umbrella,
several other people were left fuming with anger as they were caught unawares
in the midst of it all, and due to certain local trains running late, a large
number of people were discomforted, and on my attempt to contact the local
station master at Dadar Railway station, I was told that he was "unavailable
for comment". Local vendors who carry on the sale of the products on the
road pavements were also visibly upset, and claimed that rain meant bad
business for them, as people were more unwilling to step out of their houses to
buy their goods.

Local policemen and traffic police volunteers were found trying hard to make
traffic flow as smoothly as possible, and due to their excellent and tireless
efforts, apart from a few unavoidable delays in certain parts of the city, most
of the vehicular traffic was flowing satisfactorily. Hopefully the situation
shall return to normal soon, and the promises that have been made by the local
municipal corporation to the city shall be fulfilled. However, if these
promises shall be fulfilled, yet remains to be seen.

On a day that started out so normally, without betraying the slightest sign
of rain so hard, caused several vendors to lose their livelihood for the day,
thus making some of them return to their dependent families empty handed, and
just to cement this very fact of life, that there are always two sides to a
coin, in the distance, I saw a young beggar girl, with eager eyes, desperately
asking her mother if she could go and play in the rain, whilst the troubled
face of her mother, wrinkled with the stress of living a day to day life, lack
of rest, and proper health, and weakened by age, disease, and malnourishment,
clearly showed the concern on it, as she looked at the now broken and ruined
structure made out of cardboard, a few wooden pieces of wood and some other road-side
materials, that she up till a few hours ago, used to call her home. It was the day, often seen in this city, a day
tears and laughter drowned together.