Photo We Love: Unruly Umbrella in Mumbai

Travel Blog • World Hum • 07.29.09 | 11:25 AM ET

REUTERS/Arko Datta

A woman tries to control her umbrella along a stormy seafront in Mumbai, India.

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Lindsay 07.29.09 | 12:39 PM ET

HA, thats me on the corner on 9th and 15th every time it rains.

Cheap Airfare 07.30.09 | 1:11 AM ET

hahaha!! This can happen ever in rainy reason with heavy wind & such incident of umbrella is called ” Kagdo(crow)” in India.

Ling 07.30.09 | 10:52 AM ET

Maybe she’s trying to collect rainwater in the umbrella. :) Last time I was there, Mumbai had a big water problem.

wrought iron furniture 08.10.09 | 12:28 PM ET

Great photo, that umbrella is taking a beating looks like!

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