After an aching delay, the monsoon has arrived in Sikkim, washing the landscape with rain and infusing the street scenes of Gangtok with colour and character. SRIVATSAN SANKARAN lets his lens wander among the streets of Gangtok, capturing the many sleepy moods of Sikkim and its townsfolk.
Foggy river in Rango, South Sikkim.
Street life in MG Marg, Gangtok.
Reflected colours streak a rain-washed street in Gangtok, Sikkim.
Between showers, a street springs back to life.
First, fog drapes the landscape and then the rain patters down. Another slice of life from a Gangtok street.
A young monk welcomes the rains joyously
Tranquil pleasures. A foggy street in Gangtok
The picturesque Banjhakri Falls in Sikkim wears a lush, verdant monsoon mood.
Sikkimese people love to walk, no matter what the weather. These two people, sharing an umbrella, were walking 6 km to Namchi to buy provisions.
A walk to cherish amid the promise of rain on a foggy morning.
Sikkim's presiding deity, the munificent Mount Kangchenjunga, reveals her sunlit snow crowns at dawn for a few minutes before hiding again beneath a quilt of monsoon clouds.