Comments on: A Summer Day

By: ilegirl

ilegirl — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:30:25 +0000

What a beautifully written description of your nostalgia for home!

By: Anil

Anil — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:57:14 +0000

I can understand how you feel. I also suspect that it is not just about the summer, it must also have something to do with the people in India that makes summers what they are.

Like a lone swallow will not summer make, nor will a lone sunny day.

By: suranga

suranga — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:21:23 +0000

Wiping off sweat in a rainless Mumbai last week, no sun now for the last 3 days, and just got back sloshing through knee deep water after the monsoon just remembered how to rain in Mumbai, huge winds and all. I sometimes think the weather replicates the typical “behaviour” of a country. Consistent drizzling, extended cloudy skies, limited bright and sunny days, and unbrearably cold days; a very stiff-upper-lip-weather. And we oscillate wildly between fiery summers, torrential rains and slightly more tolerable winters, (if there is a winter at all, like in Mumbai); a very understandable weather for the huge spectrum of people we have, religion/customs/languages/beliefs/problems due to all these….

Enjoy your sunshine (while I have a cup of ginger-tea in the monsoon… )

By: Neha Viswanathan

Neha Viswanathan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:15:32 +0000

harini: Thanks. I have no idea why, but I am beginning to love this image. Sort of transports me to a certain moment.

Shefaly: So true. The houses here are designed to trap heat. I am sitting a few feet away from my big table fan and battling the mugginess. I hate to admit this – but I love it. :) As for my deadlines.. ermm.. am on it!

About the gravatar thing – I disabled it in the actual comments, was cluttering up space. But I am getting tired of this theme.. once my dissertation is over and I have some time – I think I might play around with this for a while. :)

Grasshopper: Unfortunately, for someone living in London, this is as summery as it will get. Sleeveless, streams of sunlight, the whole carriage lit with the sun, dwarfing the electric lights. I think I can more or less like any weather – if I have the right clothes. But I have to confess that battling with three layers of warm clothes in the winters really puts me off!

Banno: Thanks!

Lekhni: I always dread telling people back home in India when I am there that I am feeling hot, for the fear of being called a desi firang. But give me the heat anyday over the cold in this country. Though the Delhi winters are a whole different deal. Sigh.

By: Lekhni

Lekhni — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:43:52 +0000

These days I find myself saying – it’s really hot, it’s in the 80s! Even touched 90s today! It’s quite horrifying to find that after routinely living through 90s and 100s (in dry cities like Delhi too), I now think anything higher than 70s is hot :(

By: Grasshopper

Grasshopper — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:12:06 +0000

Before moving to Banglore, I always wished that I could live in a cooler place. Now I have finally realized, there is no such thing as good weather, there is only Acclimatisation. Nice picture, although there is nothing summery about it.

By: Banno

Banno — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:53:34 +0000

Really good picture.