There are probably more news reports on how the contractors and engineers have helped replicate the moon in Mumbai than the actual number of craters on our roads. Year after year, we haul up one scapegoat after the other, happy that we have someone to paste on to our dartboards for a while.

Yet, our roads continue to be moon-faced. Why have we never been able to go one monsoon without complaining about not seeing a single smooth stretch of road between our homes and destinations?