26/7 - The onset of Antlophobia!

There was a time when the onset of monsoons meant cozying up at home, watching the rains, having hot chai and pakodas, and experiencing the monsoons.
There was a time when one would get romantic about the rains and write poems and prose in glory of the monsoons.
There was a time when the sweet smell of fresh earth emanated after the rains.
There was a time when one would enjoy getting wet in the rains.
26/7 changed all that, there came an uninvited deluge. Gathering with it the rich and poor, tax payer and tax evader, office goer and street urchin; everyone faced what came over Mumbai, no discrimination whatsover.

Now, rains bring panic and fear. People want to get back to their loved ones immediately. 26/7 - The onset of Antlophobia or the Fear of Floods!

This is however not a doomsday warning, because the spirit of Mumbai has not died, the spirit lives on, triumphant and relentless. Nothing can shake this land of opportunities, because opportunities are visible only to the toughened ones, and that Mumbai has in plenty.