A calm in Gurugram day after chaos

On Tuesday, Gurugram residents woke up to an eerie calm after the storm that had crippled the city a day earlier.

- Leena Dhankhar and Abhishek Behl

The deluge on Monday had left thousands stranded in cars, trapped in gridlocked traffic, and wading through waist-deep water after one of the heaviest spells of rain in a decade.

With most corporate offices declaring work-from-home and schools moving classes online, the city's roads wore an unusually empty look. But the scars of the downpour were unmistakable - stretches of roads were caved-in, foul-smelling waterlogged patches littered all neighbourhoods, and potholes the size of craters pockmarked streets.