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An ode to the cloudy skies

We asked our readers to send photographs of clouds. In response, we received a stunning collection of evocative clicks with clouds as the protagonist hovering over landscapes

 
 

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By DTE Staff
Published: Friday 19 August 2016
I am the daughter of Earth and Water,  And the nursling of the Sky;  I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;  I change, but I cannot die. - P B Shelley (Photo credit: Janhavi Asthana)

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. - P B Shelley (Photo credit: Janhavi Asthana)

Monsoon clouds Like some discarded Wheels of a truck flung afar battered and broken - Sachidananda Routray (Photo credit: Parikshit Shedge)

Monsoon clouds Like some discarded Wheels of a truck flung afar battered and broken - Sachidananda Routray (Photo credit: Parikshit Shedge)

Which way do the clouds go? That too the poet shows! Crossing vales and over mountains With peacocks and flowing fountains – Kalidasa (Photo credit: Sanju Sivram)

Which way do the clouds go? That too the poet shows! Crossing vales and over mountains With peacocks and flowing fountains – Kalidasa (Photo credit: Sanju Sivram)

Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow, The sunset hangs on a cloud; - Sarojini Naidu (Photo credit: Ajay Gautam)

Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow, The sunset hangs on a cloud; - Sarojini Naidu (Photo credit: Ajay Gautam)

A lonely hut on the mountain peak towering above a thousand others; One half is occupied by an old monk and the other by a cloud. –Zen Poem (Photo credit: Jigyasa Watwani)

A lonely hut on the mountain peak towering above a thousand others; One half is occupied by an old monk and the other by a cloud. –Zen Poem (Photo credit: Jigyasa Watwani)

The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling, and it scatters gems in profusion. –Rabindranath Tagore (Photo credit: Sunil K Singh)

The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling, and it scatters gems in profusion. –Rabindranath Tagore (Photo credit: Sunil K Singh)

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. – Rabindranath Tagore (Photo credit: Anirban Datta Roy)

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. – Rabindranath Tagore (Photo credit: Anirban Datta Roy)

Black pregnant clouds  bring the monsoons, and stay.  Between flower and blue-gem  flower on the bilberry tree  the red-backed moths multiply – A K Ramanujan (Photo credit: Sunil K Singh)

Black pregnant clouds bring the monsoons, and stay. Between flower and blue-gem flower on the bilberry tree the red-backed moths multiply – A K Ramanujan (Photo credit: Sunil K Singh)

विज्ञान से जुड़ी सभी खबरें हिंदी में पढ़ें।
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