In what is now becoming a depressingly familiar disaster scenario, a section of the Mumbai metro bridge collapsed in Andheri yesterday, resulting in casualties and injuries. It is shocking how many incidents have taken place resulting in fatalities and casualties during several big-scale infrastructure projects.

In what has now become a cynical scoffing of the aftermath of such incidents, disasters like these are followed by the usual pass-the-buck, some compensation for victims, a committee formed to ‘investigate’ the cause of the accident and the end result is usually zilch, as we fail to learn from our mistakes.