It’s been a disconcerting week for citizens, as well as their self-involved leaders. In the political circles, NCP threw a royal tantrum about the Congress party and its ways, both at the Centre and in the state. NCP supremo Sharad Pawar caught the Congress off guard when he raised some uncomfortable questions about the party’s methods of running a coalition government.

Meanwhile, the hapless common man’s day-to-day life was once again thrown out of gear — train accidents, strikes on the WR lines, a shocking mishap on the freeway in Wadala — it was a week of horrors for the average Mumbaikar.