Rain

It is the first warm spring day we have had in Sydney in weeks. I walked out of the office and there was a storm brewing and for the first time here, I could smell the rain! If I had to pick my favourite smell, it would have to be the smell of the first monsoon shower in India.

I don't know if its the fact that all my friends are now all over the world and its been ages since we have had a chance to hang out together and have fun, but I would give anything for a humid June afternoon in Indore right now.

The beautiful smell would hit us before the actual shower and we would know that it was raining somewhere close. At that point, everyone ran out of their houses to get ready to get wet. What I miss most is rolling up our pants and going to the school sports field to splash around in the mud :D And then, after a few hours, we came back home to warm showers, clean clothes and piping hot bhajiya and chai.

Here is a picture, not of a June afternoon, but an early morning, at the bypass road in Indore. Gaurav gets the credit of introducing us to the its-beautiful-weather-lets-got-to-bypass concept. Here is a picture that all of us claim was the best time of our lives. Gaurav is the photographer and so not present in the actual picture. To this day, when we write to each other or when any of us are in Indore, a trip here is a customary, followed by an email to say it just isn't the same if everyone isn't around :)