This was a Monday morning, and I had to travel 13 kms to reach my office and I started at a presumably safe time around 7:30 in the morning. Courtesy my maid, I happened to read the morning newspaper before leaving, which usually I carry to work and read and happened to see the pictures of Bangalore drowned in water. It also said the road to my office is flooded, so I decided to ditch the car and take the office bus. Somewhere I was prepared for a long travel time, but after about 45 mins I was still around 12 kms away from work. And the lady on the Radio city kept repeating the traffic jams on every possible spot on the whole stretch. Suddenly it struck me that I have a laptop and a borrowed CD of a hindi movie, and I thought may be I can watch a bit of it and I will feel less frustrated. Thankfully the laptop was fully charged and I started watching the movie, while my colleagues kept getting down the bus, walked a bit and took the next bus on the road and a few from buses at the back boarded our bus. I got engrossed in the movie and by the time I finished the movie, we were still about 8 kms away from my office. But by then we had crossed the bottlenecks and bus had started moving. A portion of the road was totally flooded and only big vehicles could cross it and smaller vehicles had no clue what to do. All this because of the weekend rains…

Everywhere in the world we are witnessing water based calamities or natural disasters, floods, disruptions. Is this a phenomenon that is there to stay? Is this one-off years when water is in bad mood?