Rains Archives

Mausam Bada Beimaan Hai: Our Weather is the Great Indian Unifier

Weather in India is as contentious as our language, cuisine, and politics. It is not just a conversation starter, it is where our differences go to die and find a new life. If we didn’t have the weather, how would we discuss our government’s corruption and apathy, based on that one pothole, with perfect strangers?

Runjhun Noopur June 30, 2016

Technology

Bengaluru’s Self-Claimed Culture of Innovation Cannot Rescue the City from Falling Apart

Considered the hub of innovation, Bengaluru’s infrastructural problems are at odds with every app-based solution its brightest minds try to sell as a ‘solution’ to a problem. Beneath its veil of ambitious, lip-smacking valuations, there is a creaking city waiting to be rescued.

Jagruti Verma June 2, 2016

POV

Who Will Be the Villain in the Biopic on Mumbai? Terrorists or Potholes?

Congratulations, Mumbai, your apathy truly deserves an applause. Your tax money is used to build roads, repair them, so when there are pothole-related casualties, you are paying for your own death. The biopic on the city should ideally be titled “Bombay, the City that Never Feels”.

Hardik Rajgor April 5, 2016

POV

A Petition to Declare Mumbai a Work-from-Home City

Why do we put up with shitty office WiFi, harrowing commutes, and weird coworkers when modern technology allows us to conduct our business while being simultaneously hugged by our blankets? Working from home is Mumbai’s three-word answer to saving the environment – and our sanity.

Karima Khan April 4, 2016

POV

How Mumbai Stopped Romanticising the Rain and Started Dreading It

Come June, you could be walking on the street and be felled by a falling tree in Mumbai. Or you could get stuck inside a jammed SUV and drown. The possibilities are increasing every year. Every year, the Mumbaikar is a little more fearful than fond of the monsoon.

Aparna joshi March 27, 2016

POV

What Mumbai’s Common Man Stands to Lose As the Worli Promenade Makes Way for the Coastal Road Project

We are all set to lose the 83-year-old Worli Sea Face promenade to the Mumbai Coastal Road Project. The BMC promises that the boardwalk will be replaced with a ritzy seaside walkway, but for me, its quiet death would mark the end of an era.

Dipti Kharude March 15, 2016