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Subir Roy: Dry parks, unaffordable sandesh
I didn’t believe friends in Bangalore who told us over the phone: don’t come now; it is hotter than Kolkata. They were too spoilt, I thought, by the city’s year-round good weather. But, in fact, the little patch of roadside green before our house was gone; the green in the park where I walk every morning had turned light brown. Yes, Bangalore is in the grip of a drought of sorts.