After three days of heavy, incessant rains lashing the city, we are already wishing the monsoon away. I have learned from wet and dreary experiences that the romance of the monsoon is only in its arrival. Then it becomes an awful bore. You just want it to get
over. The monsoon is whimsical. After a no-show for most of the month, it has suddenly revived and is giving us a terrible pasting. Leaving the city battered and wringing wet. Despite all our preparations, everywhere there is nothing but bad news. Roads
are caving in and flooding, buildings are collapsing, people are left stranded between the workplace and home, manholes are lying treacherously open, their covers stolen and sold as scrap, for unsuspecting citizens to fall into and drown. Damp clothes just
don’t dry, the ceiling is leaking, the soul is heavy, old aches and pains have been rekindled, and the spirit is soaking wet. An angry sea, resentful by all the land reclaimed for the Coastal Road, is sending gigantic waves to the shore, heaping years of garbage lying in the deep upon the roads. People are putting videos on Instagram.
Friends in Canada, China, and the US are sending pictures on WhatsApp. As if we don’t know what’s going on. The weatherman, alarmed by the onslaught, has hastily issued an orange alert all week for Mumbai. But this rain is not going to stop. It will continue till October. Playing spoilsport and washing away the Navratri festivities. The monsoon is here with a vengeance, almost. Yet for all the rain we are receiving, the catchment areas
are getting little, the lakes are drying up, and Mumbai is facing a water cut. This is not the season of the poet. It is like a punishment by Nature for all the abuse we have brought upon the city.
About Mark Manuel
The above thoughts/content has been proudly copied from the wall of Sir Mark Manuel. Being interviewing almost every role model of this country and going stronger each day. Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer, and columnist.
With over three decades of journalism in leading publications. This includes the Free Press Journal, Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Mid-Day, and Afternoon. He is famous for his brilliant pen interviews. He himself is a TEDx speaker.
Further
His interviews have been featured in several leading media houses. They include the Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, BBC, and Network 18. Almost every famous person has been interviewed by him in the country from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali. His first book is just out. It’s titled Moryaa Re! It is a crime thriller that is perhaps the country’s first police procedural. He began his career covering crime. And in a tribute to his experience and knowledge of this beat.
Several distinguished officers of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch collaborated with him to make this book possible. Amitabh Bachchan wrote the forward in a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work.
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