India doesn’t need a cloudburst to drown — just 15 minutes of rain is enough. In 2005, Mumbai saw 944 mm of rainfall in 24 hours — but what made it deadly wasn’t just the rain — it was the plastic-choked drains. Result? 1,094 deaths, thousands stranded, billions lost. Today, 70% of Indian cities have obsolete drainage systems, designed to handle rainfall patterns from 50 years ago. Yet we generate over 25,000 tonnes of plastic waste daily, and a big chunk ends up in drains and rivers. Whom to blame? #Monsoon #indiafloods #gurugram