BMC Headquarters — Archived from July 2006
Due to a rather ironic turn of affairs, the picture of this month is of the same agency that has been hogging the headlines at the start of this month. The much awaited monsoons have finally arrived in all their glory in Mumbai, and as usual, caught the municipality with their pants down. The city is flooded, transport disrupted, and lives lost.
Of course all of this is already familiar to the citizens who survived a similar spate of floods last year. And rather than complain about how lousy a job the city's masters are doing, the people have gotten to work rescuing the stranded as they did last year. While the BMC continues to doze in its lofty citadel…