The "Real" Curse of The Black Pearl...

No... This is not about the now famous trilogy of Pirates of the Caribbean. Neither am I referring to any soccer. The black pearl here is... our own COOUM. I'm sure no one has forgotten the perils of the monsoons yet. One of my friends (Dhanasekar) got some interesting pictures he clicked near his home. I'm sure people of this locality are not going to forget this monsoons any time soon.

It rained and it poured... and when it poured.. I guess our cooum puked. We all know cooum contains more rubbish than water. So what happens if it is in spate for some reason and it decides to enter our chennai streets? This is what happens...

Mind you... this is cooum water, full of silt - in other words disease. What will happen to these people who navigate through hip high cooum waters? Well, their hard earned money is going to some doctor for sure. And what about people who want to go to work, my friend couldn’t for two days and I can’t talk about others. I honestly feel Hyderabad is much better in waste water management. I have never seen water stagnation for more than 2 hrs there despite heavier rains. Just to give you the gravity of the situation, Please see the photographs below to see how the same road looks without water...

Waster water management should be relatively easier than what catches the eye here. I just hope someday people wake up to it. It’s so frustrating when the administration announces a sum of 2000 rupees for flood affected areas. Hey, can't we just make our drainage system better. It's not about the money anymore. I want to live in a developed India. And a developed India definitely should not have these problems. Rs.2000 is no substitute for proactive policies and steps from both the administration and people alike.