On Aug 29th, the monsoon fury unleashed on Mumbai, India’s financial city, brought it to a grinding halt. Two toddlers were among 14 people killed in the floods. It received nearly a month’s average rainfall in a single day – that halted the transit lifeline of train services and led to several flight cancellations.[1] It continued for two more days until subsiding. This is touted to be the worst flooding since 2005 that saw death of more than 500 people. Over the last month,

“Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in the first place to consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces, for they are not all alike, but differ much from themselves in regard to their changes”. - Hippocrates; On Airs, Waters, and Places In this era of globalization, the planet earth is facing multiple crises - the recent financial, food and fuel crisis (the ‘three Fs’) and the two ‘slow burn’ crises – the climate c