City Hangout – Monsoon Places, Around Town Hangouts by The Delhi Walla - July 3, 2024July 3, 20240 In Delhi rains. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The grey sky above the ITO crossing is growing darker. The sweating humidity is soon replaced by a cool breeze. It is starting to rain. Lightly, then heavily. Bikers huddle under the avenue trees. Bus commuters gawk out of the glass windows. An auto rickshaw’s rear-view mirror gets spotty with raindrops, resembling a pointillist Seurat painting. And now he appears--this young man skating in the rain, wheeling past cars and autos, his lithe figure swaying smoothly. See photo. He cheerily waves towards the camera and skates ahead into the thickening rain. The most intense place in the Delhi region to witness the monsoon is an old building in Gurugram’s Civil Lines. The Church of