Early morning musings….

While walking home from my daughter’s, I caught the sunlight, slanting in beams in the dusty morning air:

Ironic that it’s the pollution in our air which shows up the shafts of sunlight!

The scene also illustrates why traffic problems in our city, and country, are rather more complicated than elsewhere. There is such a variety of vehicles, motorized and non-motorized; two-, three- and four-wheelers jostling for the road, and amidst all the chaos, the hapless pedestrians, making their way too. I wish I’d been able to capture the bullock-cart that went past just before I clicked!

For all the problems and difficulties, our city has yet a magic that makes me glad to live here.

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