Move too fast and a small red square flashes on the screen and you have to start from the beginning. I held down the right shoulder button, then the left shoulder button, and then slid the right analog stick upward, the speed of the gesture corresponding to the speed of the hand motion in game. "Here let me do it." So it was with a sense of familiar dread that I realized the sex scene in Heavy Rain wasn't going to automate this tricky bit of mundanity for me. "You alright there?" my date finally asked. Was there a time limit after which my relative inexperience would become obvious? My brain felt like it was trembling in anticipation of the unavoidable revelation of my incompetence. As the seconds began to pile up, I felt the onset of a sexual vertigo. Instead, like a string of naughty sitcom jokes, I fumbled with the tiny clasps that only seemed to get tighter the more I tried to unhinge them. It seemed like it would be so simple, just pulling a button through a little cloth noose. But officials were not sure if the work was rectified in time.I remember anticipating defeat the first time I grappled with a woman's bra strap. Major drains including Irla nullah in Juhu, Mogra nullah in Andheri, Somaiya nullah in Ghatkopar and Rafique nullah in Govandi contributed to flooding on Friday.īMC additional municipal commissioner SVR Sinivas said fines were collected from several contractors in the last 45 days for shoddy work on drains. Opposition leaders claim less than 25 per cent of the work has been done. The BMC says 60 per cent of the desilting work was completed by May-end. We will have to conduct a study to see if it is possible,” he added.īrimstowad (Brihanmumbai Storm Water Drains Project) remains incomplete. “The only way out is to raise height of the road on that stretch. He added that the authority, which has now handed over the road to the civic body, had to battle a similar situation last year. “Till water on railway tracks recedes, there can’t be any respite on SCLR,” he said. A senior engineer from MMRDA said this water-logging was on account of drainage lines being linked to those of the Central Railway. The Rs 428-crore road was opened to traffic in April last year. Near Amar Mahal junction in Chembur, a portion of the east-west Santacruz-Chembur-Link-Road was severely water-logged through the day, paralysing traffic heading for Eastern Express Highway. Poor coordination among the agencies involved was also seen as another factor contributing to the failure. Officials claim drains can handle 100 mm of rainfall in 24 hours, but 250 mm-280 mm will cause water-logging given the geographical peculiarities of Mumbai. In a veiled reference, Thackeray pointed a fingers at the state-run Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), which is headed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.Īsked about the blame game, Fadnavis said, “Instead of blaming each other, it is time all came together to overcome problems Mumbai face.” Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said the BMC alone could not be blamed for Friday’s events. B’P’s Mumbai chief Ashish Shelar, launching a veiled attack on ally Shiv Sena, said he had already raised a question mark over quality of nullah cleaning prior to monsoon. Congress leader Sachin Sawant demanded a probe by the urban development department.īJP and Shiv Sena leaders also fired barbs at each other.