Word: monsoonal
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...malnourishment and corruption. Western visitors are led to believe that this once charming small town is India's Silicon Valley. But there is the same gap between the advertised image of a prosperous city and the stark reality; it is the same hype surrounding the "Incredible India" campaign. Come monsoon rains, many homes in this hi-tech city will be flooded with rainwater and sewage sludge. Good roads, metro rail, airports and other facilities have been on the drawing board for years, but there's little evidence of it on the ground. The IT sector and outsourced jobs help...
With over 18 million inhabitants, Mumbai has a population density four times that of New York City, and fully half of these inhabitants are homeless. Millions live in fetid, decaying slum metropolises without running water or electricity. Only rudimentary cinderblock and aluminum sheet dwellings protect these impoverished masses from monsoon rainfalls and a sweltering...
...Castle,” where Penn plays a prospective medical student on an epic quest for fast food after smoking too much pot and getting the munchies.According to Penn at an interview with college journalists, upon discovering that renowned director Mira Nair ’79 (“Monsoon Wedding,” “Vanity Fair”) had the rights to film “The Namesake,” he immediately began a campaign to be in the cast. Yet he would not have succeeded without the help of two well-placed fans...
...Monsoon rains aren't new in Jakarta. But with at least 50 people dead and more than 340,000 forced to flee their homes, this year's flooding is the worst in recent memory-and blame is falling on the city government for failing to make infrastructure fixes that might have prevented the devastation. Waterways like central Jakarta's Ciliwung River routinely overflow in heavy rains, despite government pledges to clean them up. Work on a floodwater canal in East Jakarta has dragged as residents complain about poor land compensation. And unchecked development is eroding green areas critical to absorbing...
...Heavy monsoon rains won't alter their wedding plans, but the escalating conflict might. Peace talks with the government stalled in 2004. Recent clashes between the N.P.A. and government forces have claimed scores of lives across the archipelago, particularly in the rebel strongholds of Luzon and Mindanao. In a few bloody days last month, the military shot dead three N.P.A. commanders, while an ambush by 30 rebels killed four policemen...