Kanika Datta: Rain of terror

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Kanika Datta New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 29 2013 | 1:14 AM IST

Municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak's reaction is telling. "There are 15 million people living in Mumbai and they are safe," he said. To another daily he said he too would not invite relatives to Mumbai during the rains.

Phatak is missing the larger point (quite apart from the fact that he's grossly underestimated Mumbai's population

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First Published: Jun 12 2008 | 12:00 AM IST