Rains

Long before the news stations started making reality shows out of floods in mumbai, i was not very enthusiastic about the rainy season. I am not a happy bathroom-singing bather.

Reason- water gets i wet and soggy.

But this is not about my bathroom, or my singing talent. Its about the rains in Ahmedabad, and the fetish of AMC(municipal corporation). Fetishes by definition are strange habits. Now, AMC has a Digging fetish. They are into digging every road this city has, or could have. And what is typical is, this fetish is at its peak every time its the rainy season. Wet and soggy is not enough they think, it has to be wet, soggy, muddy, bumpy, filthy Ahmedabad.

The rains it seems work as an aphrodisiac, getting the AMC into action.

This time they are out creating underground tunnels, which they say will be the final final show of the digging fetish. After these are laid, the AMC, the GAS pipelines, gutters, telephone cables and all other sundry things will be laid in the privacy of these tunnels, keeping the Ahmedavadis unaware of the action.

But i am sure, that means all the existing underground cables and pipelines need to be dug out..