City surface full of clouds

Guide for the cumulus season

- Mayank Austen Soofi

Dull, smoggy, grey. Almost a rotting corpse. That's our Dilli sky most of the year.

The same asmaan resurrects into life during the monsoon. It is the year’s A-1 time for Delhi nephophiles, the cloud lovers. (This is also the time to reread Kalidas’s Meghaduta, The Cloud Messenger).

One afternoon last week, a massive cavalcade of very many small clouds were seen right above the business towers of Nehru Place. The clouds were not rainy black, but cottony white. They were moving very slowly. The pitch blue sky, visible in patches from behind the cloud cover, was giving the illusion of motion.