The recent rains in Mumbai were an eye-opener. One hopes that the whole concept of city planning takes lessons from the series of disastrous mistakes and the total lack of developmental vision which brought Mumbai to its knees. It isn't just Mumbai, any major city of India is basically a disaster waiting to happen. Indians as people have a NIMBY attitude. They would keep their house neat but would not lift a finger to keep the area around their home clean. It is time Indians developed a civic sense, something which was taught to us cursorily years ago at school. As long as we don't have civic sense, a sense of community and a feeling of social responsibility, India will never become a developed nation. Every developed nation has got where it has because the people had a sense of responsibility. Not just Mumbai, every Indian needs to wake up and demand accountability and deliver it. That will be our first step to becoming a great nation again.
