Pune in pixels: Surfing water-logged streets to ride the monsoon wave
Updated On Jun 27, 2018 07:45 PM IST
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A cold wind blows, two drops of water fall on your face and then, out of no where, you are in the rain. The beauty of rain is as simple as that. The city is readying to embrace the full-fledged monsoon, with many complaining about how unprepared the civic body is and how badly maintained the roads are. But for these children, it means fun time. (Shankar Narayan/HT PHOTO)
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Helmets maybe a strict no-no for many Puneites (sarcasm intended), but come the rains, many have some ‘life hacks’ for beating the rain when they do not own a rain coat. A scene from Kharadi on June 21. (Shankar Narayan/HT PHOTO)
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Moses may have split the sea to allow a path through, but the ordinary Puneite have to use his beloved car to make a path through the water logged roads in Kharadi. (Shankar Narayan/HT PHOTO)
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What do most do when it rains? Sleep? Have a hot chai and watch the shower? No, say school children. Be it rain or wind, classes must go on, and students have to endure their teachers while dreaming of the fun they could be having outside on a cold, rainy evening. An evening after school in Kharadi. (HT PHOTO)
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Cartoons have taught us that if you travel fast enough, you can ‘easily’ run over water. True? NO, false. But it was too late for this tempo traveller driver. A scene from Chinchwad. (HT PHOTO)
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