Dilli Summer

I love Delhi. Even in summers. When the sun burns you in the day. And the mosquitoes bite at night. That's when the different flowers of Delhi get active and start colouring the city. It starts with the red Gulmohars, which set the streets on fire with their unabashed redness. These gave way to the yellow Amaltas. Streets and streets of yellow trees - obscuring the green leaves and threatening to blind you with their brightness.
Not as prevalent, but in the many parks and gardens of Delhi, white and pink Plumeria ( or Frangipani) bloom through most of summer. Other white and fragrant flowers, fill the night air and make your head dizzy with romance, despite the buzzing mosquitoes and trickling sweat.
Bel or Stone Apple trees bear fruit in summer too. The ripe fruit smells sweet - to some - and nauseating to others. I can smell a ripe Bel fruit the whole day and be happy.
Mulberries are common in Delhi, during summers. As our Jamuns ( Black Plums). The thought of buying Mulberries and Jamuns in shops, is alien to a true Delhi-ite. These fruits are to be plucked, by climbing trees or picked from the ground - if you are not fussy about sand/mud and ants. As the fruit falls only after it is fully ripe, quite obviously the result on the ground is a purple mush of sweetness. But some are still edible. If you are really passionate, you can put a cloth under these trees, especially after a spell of rain, and just watch them plop onto the cloth. It is pretty and tastes like heaven.
So Delhi Summers has lots of offer. Take that camera and fruit-collecting cloth out, and sit in a park. With a mosquito repellent patch of course.


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