Yes it will bounce back. Why you know most of the working population are daily wage earners or business men. For them each day is a big loss so they will bounce back from the corner. Sitting in a developed nation and commenting about India is bad. We cant compare India with other countries. The other countries can afford to spend in infrastructure as no citizen there goes to sleep in empty stomach. India may be IT major and its own IT majors complain about poor infrastructure. They being rich majors can't complain that the poor corporation is not doing enough for them. Its high time that they take responsibility in society by building infrastructure and adopt poor villages. They have caused deep divide between rich and poor section. They should compensate this by taking social responsibilities. Rediff should cover the difficulties of people who have been driven to live in the platforms apart from worries of people abroad about their inlaws and parents.
Like many of you, i am also sitting half way across the world. I'm in the US right now and was trying desparately to get a hold of my parents who live in SantaCruz(W). Fortunately things seem to be getting better in Mumbai. Honestly speaking, i am not worried about Mumbai. She can take care of her self. She has done that numerous times before. What i am worried about is the fact that some people choose to critize the govenment and others at a time like this. If you are in fact a Mumbaikar (which i find hard to believe ...Mumbaikars are a lot more positive) you should send out words of encouragement/support and your prayers. Not your unchecked verbal abuse of the government who is doing all it can to cope with mother nature's fury.
Well, the need of the hour is to help the people who are in the bus's trains and who are yet to return to their home's. Being in Singapore, my heat goes for them. There is no point blaming the administration or the politicians at this point of time. How clean do we keep out cities? We litter every where, which in turn choke's our drain.
This rain has washed all the dirt in Mumbai. My prayer are for you all there in Mumbai...
I am a resident of Australia. I read the news about the havoc created by deadly rainfall in Mumbai. It was very hard to digest this fact. However, unlike few people, I don't think that we should blame our politicians for this. I read someone mentioning about the super drainage system in Tokyo that safeguards the city from heavy rains. Well, Can Tokyo's drainage system handle 994 mm of rain? Instead of blaming our political system, we should try to help our friends and family members who have been galloped in the massive rainfall, as best as we can.
Hey don't blame our great politicians that they are not planning. Of course they are planning, if not anything good for our nation, how to cheat the whole nation and the poor citizens (the fools who voted for them). The only intention of these stupid ....s are to amass wealth, for which they are ready to sell our country to anybody. Forget yar. Don't expect any good thing from these notorious traitors.
I am pretty sure Mumbai will bounce back. No second thoughts about that. Ofcourse we cannot blame the government officials for the calamity. 37.1" of rainfall is a lot. Many places in India dont get that amount in an entire year. Sure our drainage systems arent the best in the world, but they are still efficient in "normal" circumstances. True the progress rate is slow and the politicians arent what they ought to be. Now we get the news that the PM is going to visit Mumbai. This means that there will be hundreds of policemen and security officials involved in protecting him. There will be road bandhs wherever he goes for security reasons, which is fine, but is this what Mumbai needs right now? Wouldnt it make more sense if those security personnel were involved in rescue operations and other relief work? This happened even when there were dual blasts in the city at the gateway and mumbadevi. Sonia gandhi and Advani were here to see the people in the hospital. Why? All they did was caused inconvenience to patients, doctors and relatives. Is this what we need? Is a life of an INDIAN worth political mileage?
Aamchi Mumbai has the inner strength and capability of weathering all storms ever dished out to it.
I have left Mumbai back about 2 years now, but still live Mumbai in my heart now and will be forever. Once a Mumbaite Always a Mumbaite.
At this moment of crisis of once in a 100 years, its no use blaming the system. What were the blamers doing before this calamity struck? Did they realise or envisage that such a thing could happen? If they did what steps did they take to create an awareness?
Its easy to blame the system after an event and say that this could have been done and that should be done. Not that I am protecting the system, but at this critical hour, there is need for compassion for all those stranded away from home and their near and dear ones. Imagine the plight of the working mother who cannot reach home to her small child in this hour when the child needs the mother most.
Let all Mumbaikars rise up ONCE MORE to this occasion and prove to the world that we are the ONLY ONES who can deal with such a situation. I can bet NO othEr city in the world is capable of withstanding such an onlsaught of natures fury and get back up and running as Mumbai will
I am presently in the USA but will always be a mumbaite. When I first read about the rains I called my school friend who also is out of the country and spoke about our schooldays...and the fun we had in the flooded streets. But when I could not get through to my parents or any relatives and I realised the situation is far worse than the school time rains....my 15 yr old cousin is traumatised after seeing a dead body by the side of the road.... My only concern is Why is the municipality ( no matter which party is at the top) always caught unaware? I pray for the safe return of all the stranded people and hope there are no more casualties...but knowing MUMBAI THE CITY and HER PEOPLE I know she will bounce back....
every year we hear that the BMC has done a good job, so that standing waters subside easily, but unfortunately it is the same story every year, the agony and pain the average Mumbaikar has to bear during such calamities, falls into deaf years, of course the same people are extremely efficient in deducting taxes at source but who will monitor their performance( the present scenario in Mumbai is a classic example), over the years we all have become extremely tolerant towards all the odds. In our country we do not sue the govt. for non-performance, ofcourse the age old excuse remains, ours is a big country, highly populated with so many varient cultures. It is high time we all need to wake up, we do elect govt. ourselves but everyone of them are a part of the same pudding. Day in and day out our countrymen have to struggle a lot to earn their living, leave aside anything else, but this cannot go on for ever. Iam thinking from a wider perspective.
