: Along Mumbai’s volatile Mithi river, residents spend fearful nights in wait of promised homes #IndiaNEWS It is a July night in Mumbai’s central suburb of Kurla, and the rain is falling in sheets.Vishakha

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Along Mumbai’s volatile Mithi river, residents spend fearful nights in wait of promised homes #IndiaNEWS
It is a July night in Mumbai’s central suburb of Kurla, and the rain is falling in sheets.Vishakha Wagh, 40, has finished dinner with her family, and has put her children to sleep – but sleep evades her. As she listens to the clamour of the raindrops on the asbestos sheet that is the roof of her house, she wonders if this will be the night. Her apprehension is well-founded. A few hours later, she is woken up by yells of “paani aala, utha� (wake up, the water is coming). Her family runs outside, where people are already rushing towards higher ground. There is water in the narrow lanes and people use a rope fashioned by the local boys to make sure nobody is washed away. Wagh and her family are soaked to the skin by the time they reach a municipal school located on higher ground. “We just find a spot to sit or lie down, and we stay there until the water recedes,� says Wagh. “It could mean a few hours or a day, even two.� What about food or blankets? “That comes much later, or not at all. All we get at that moment is shelter.�This account is not of one particular...Read more

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