India, July 28 -- Dull, smoggy, grey. Almost a rotting corpse. That's our Dilli sky most of the year. The same asmaan resurrects into life during the monsoon. It is the year's A-1 time for Delhi nephophiles, the cloud lovers. (This is also the time to re-read Kalidas's Meghaduta, The Cloud Messenger).

One afternoon last week, a massive cavalcade of very many small clouds were seen right above the business towers of Nehru Place. The clouds were not rainy black, but cottony white. They were moving very slowly. The pitch blue sky, visible in patches from behind the cloud cover, was giving the illusion of motion.

The same day, some distance ahead from Nehru Place, a massive bunch of cottony white clouds was hanging over the Jamia Nagar grav...