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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