Every monsoon, Mumbai wages war against the rain. Too often, however, it is the city’s own administration that proves deadlier than the weather. The death of a 60-year-old man, swallowed by an uncovered manhole during civic maintenance work, was not...

As wetlands disappear beneath concrete, Mumbai’s resilience to floods and climate shocks is being severely undermined. Every monsoon season, Mumbai falls into a similar pattern. The rain comes down hard, flooding streets, stopping trains, leaving neighbourhoods wet for days and...