It's pouring outside. Half an hour ago the sky looked like this...

I took a different route home today. Instead of jostling for space with trucks, buses and other assorted vehicles on the rain-damaged highway, we took smaller roads that run parallel, and found ourselves wandering through puddles large enough to create illusions of Venice in the dark. Oh well – of Alleppy then.

It’s been raining.

And this is when I remember Alexander Frater’s Chasing the Monsoon, which is all about the south west monsoon.

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Since it rains and it rains and it rains... and the roads are slushy – a rain collage!!!

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There is also a tea collage.