For four months, Sunil K of Ram Nagar 8th main road has been trying to convince his drinking water supplier to deliver water cans to his house. The area has been cut off from online deliveries and others for months because of the bad roads.
Even when the water was quick to drain here like elsewhere in the city, the rain left the dug-up roads in a mess, with every turn of the street being accident-prone. Even as the stormwater drain work was winding up in the area, the metro water began sewage pipe laying work this month, resulting in many roads remaining unmotorable.
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Big ideas, thin characters, little feeling
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