Posted on 22 April 2007
Darjeeling inhabitant: A curious web-footed, moss-backed creature who complains when it’s wet, misses the rain when it’s dry.
Darjeeling: Place where summer is the nicest half-hour all year. The weather forecasters are great magicians—their favorite trick is making summer disappear. When the sun shines, people take a photograph of it—the most recent one is 3 ½ years old. To heat your tea with sunshine takes six months. And if you try to (as the old song says), “Let a smile be your umbrella,” you’ll get a mouthful of rain.
Calcutta and Mumbai: During monsoon, you can get seasick just crossing the street.
Delhi: so dry that when frogs swim up a stream, they leave a cloud of dust behind.
All
India: we hope to teach the mosquitoes to be vegetarians.
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