Yes, with the changing climate situation, monsoons are becoming more intense, and they now bring a lot of civic challenges and widespread destruction, but is that monsoon’s fault or is it our (human’s) bad planning and over-indulgence? I often see people complaining and cursing the monsoon. Which is strange. Because, without rain, we just cannot survive, our agriculture, snow on the mountains and water in the rivers everything depends on rains and without monsoon, the earth will go dry. The real truth is we humans have encroached too much on nature’s space. Like all of us, rains, rivers and water channels et al, too need their own space to grow, expand and express themselves. In fact, without floods, a large part of land will not get its due share of minerals and nourishment. But we have intruded into the river’s personal space to the extent that she just cannot expand a bit, not even during monsoon, we are trying to restrict her movement in every possible way. If we do that, which is an extremely unintelligent and inharmonious way to deal with nature, then we have to pay a heavy price for that.