Not just Mumbai but the whole of India, and many parts of the world, is experiencing a very hot summer. Everyone is complaining. People worry about the El Niño effect and the possibility of a below-normal monsoon.

And yet, as we have seen every year, the very same people cribbing about the heat will start complaining the moment the monsoon arrives. There will be some flooding, some disruption of traffic — this is entirely normal. And when winter comes, even in a city like Mumbai where we merely pretend there is a winter, people will find reason to complain about........

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