Date:14/06/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/14/stories/2008061450240200.htm

Tamil Nadu

Waiting for the rain gods

— PHOTO:S. SIVA SARAVANAN

Hopes soar: This withered tree is a mute testimony of the havoc summer has wreaked on Coimbatore. The overcast sky has kindled hopes of the rain gods descending on the city soon.