When the media flashed images of Wipro's office in Bangalore under 10 feet of water, India's IT dream almost looked shattered. When Mumbai was hit by unprecedented rains, Indians were shocked to see its dream city neck deep in water.

What had happened to the dream that was to be India? How did we blunder and flounder so badly?

People stranded in homes in waist-deep waters, carcases flowing all over for days on end, people living without electricity and water supply for several days... all this in the maya nagari of India. Unbelievable!

And Mumbai was to be the Shanghai of India! What a shame. With so much of Mumbai built on reclaimed land, how would water get drained?

Clearly, neither the politicians, nor the real estate lobby thought of it before. And little did they care! As all of low-lying areas of the city lay in 10-15 feet of water, people wondered how the city of dreams could turn this bad?

If tsunami ravaged the Tamil Nadu coastline and ate into much of Naggapattinam, the merciless North East monsoons created havoc in Chennai and neighbouring areas.

India had momentarily, turned into a soggy hellhole.