So it stays silent. Outside, I hear the whoops of children as they play in the lawns. This is the last weekend of the summer holidays. The bigger boys are having a game of cricket in the tennis court. Further on, Warden Road, now Bhulabhai Desai Road, is a rush of traffic.
Cars honk like ducks and cicadas.
Buses change gear painfully and throatily. I take another sip of coffee and return to my book. Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta, a civil servant and writer, lives in Mumbai, India with her husband Anindya and their butterscotch Labrador puppy, Whisky. All of them love sitting by the sea doing nothing at all.