Mumbai has become a city of nightmares - for both the privileged and underprivileged. The people who keep the city buzzing and lively are in no way guaranteed their safety. The reasons for it are endless: administration/planner-sponsored flaws like a crumbling bridge that cries for repairs and replacement, an uncovered manhole, gassy underground gutters, a damaged pavement or lack of one that can be walked on comfortably, dysfunctional traffic signals, ill-designed roads and expressways, falling trees and corruption-infested mismanagement of the civic body that has ignored basic infrastructural requirements.

We cry hoarse when an incident like a bridge collapse, stampede or fires at hotels/pubs kill Mumbaikars. The administration and their political bosses wake up temporarily, order inquiries, identify scapegoats and the issue gradually dies a silent death. We forget the past only to remember it again when more people become victims of civic apathy.