It has been raining a bit, like 5 to 10 minutes of heavy rain with some minutes of drizzling at the beginning and at the end. This has happened some times now over the last few weeks.
This means that after the heavy rain the streets are full of running water running for the easy way down and out to the Ganga. The water takes anything with it, sandals, cow and dog shit, paper and plastic. If you are the ones out and have no patience for the streets getting dry again, there is only choice, get out and get wet. Even with an umbrella your feet and legs, read your pants gets wet from above and from below.
The pants get wet and stained from the sloppy mud that the shoes and sandals throw up upon my nice ironed cotton pants. The result is washing and scrubbing off the mud or whatever it is on your pants. At times it can quite difficult get the pants clean again. Lucky enough for me there is the laundry and dishwasher soap of the Indian style. It is a block of a soap and scrub substance and so far it is the only soap that can get those stains off. That soap can get almost anything clean, clothes with this kind of stains will get clean, oily dishes gets super clean even in cold water. And you have to rinse both clothes and dishes thoroughly.
Doing the laundry as soon as you get home will also get your feet cleansed, remember walking in the muddy water with all sorts of extra cow dung added. So washing the feet is mandatory too.
Advice bring your rain pants, umbrella and patience.
