A Sea Of Black Umbrellas

A sea of black umbrellas. That’s how I would describe the Mumbai Monsoons.

Each day as one steps out of VT Station….it’s this black sea one gets to see. Tried to get a few shots today…but wasn’t able to get anything real nice. Will upload to my flickr account over the weekend. In fact been a shutterfly for the most of last week. Gateway (Day, Rain n Night), Marine Drive, Worli Sea Face etc…

Well monsoons have truly set in….and the best dose which I received was during the Mumbai-Pune bike ride last Saturday. 3 hours of crazy rain riding! Was soaked to bone marrow cells!

Back in Mumbai been treated to the constant drizzle disrupted occasionally with burst of heavy rains. A bad mishap in the local train left me with a rather painful wrist. Traveling by local trains becomes such a pain in the rains. The fast train from my place to VT usually takes 27 mins and a slow train 41 mins. Today’s fast train took me more than an hour! And even the bus journey from VT to Colaba gets longer cos’ of the nuisancical rainy traffic jams.

But no matter what one says – the rains carry their own charm. It sucks to be a single in this city during the rains….sucks even more when you are not really single but are still single!

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