it's not rocket science

When we began researching urban drainage, the very first expert we met warned us that if Delhi were to get the kind of rains that Bombay got back in that terrible July of 2005, it would go under water for at least a month. A few hours after this exchange, it started pouring. The autowallah who took me back home that night, eerily echoed the expert I had met earlier in the day. His previous fare had missed making it to the New Delhi railway station because just an hour of heavy rainfall had overwhelmed the ITO crossing, and the unfortunate vehicles that happened to be caught at the wrong place, wrong time. So what would Delhi do if the monsoon gods gave it their good graces for 24 or even 12 hours?