India, Sept. 4 -- Every monsoon the cities of India turn into lakes as common people suffer; little is done to find a permanent solution to deal with monsoon rains
This is yet another monsoon season when everybody is cursing the rains, giving little thought to the fact that it is not nature but ourselves to be blamed for our miseries. We lament the rains in rainy season and as soon as monsoon retreat we forget about it. From Delhi to Mumbai, Chennai to Jaipur, the monsoon brings a recurring nightmare of waterlogging, floods, and disease outbreaks.
This year, however, the situation has reached alarming levels. In the capital, the Yamuna has surged past danger levels, displacing over 10,000 people from low-lying areas. The river was recorde...