The afternoon shower. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon in July 2013 The Delhi Walla was having green tea at Elma’s Bakery in Central Delhi’s Meharchand Market when it started to rain. I immediately called photographer Raghu Rai. From his studio in the historic village of Mehrauli in south Delhi, Mr Rai said he was working on a new book — it’s on the monsoon and clouds. “My window looks to the Qutub Minar and a jungle of keekar trees,” he told me on phone. “When it rains, the leaves of the keekar don’t let the raindrops slide off from their surface and so the slender branches droop even lower. The sight is magnificent — sharm se khoobsurti jhuk jati