The thundershowers in Mumbai usually bare the real face of the city, certainly its shortcomings, of which there are many—flooded roads, disrupted railway networks, dislocation of buses and other transport modes, people struggling to wade through the unrelenting waters, filth and sewage mixed with rainwater in places, building crashes, roofs collapsing, roads caving in and so on.

However, it surprised many to see that the brand-new 17-day-old underground metro station at Acharya Atre Chowk near Worli was inundated too and suffered damage to its systems when the skies opened up over Mumbai this Monday, bringing July-like thundershowers in May. Its name, ‘Aqua Line’, got a new meaning that day.

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