monsoons<\/a> came earlier this year. But they were not unexpected.<\/p>\nThe very people who had been warning us of a terrible summer with its punishing heat had also cautioned that the rains would come early and would come down hard. And yet, the country continued to be distracted by the usual business of politics.<\/p>\n
It is no wonder then that the ferocity of the rains took most of us by surprise in the mountains, in the plains and in the cities \u2014 both those we claim are well run and those where the governance crisis is so severe that we discuss it ad infinitum.<\/p>\n\n