We had gone back to the flat for a rest and then dinner. The driver took us out again that evening. This is the Gateway Of India built at the main docks in 1911 to welcome Queen Mary and King George V.
Obviously it is night in this picture. Not so obviously it was Still 100 degrees. Can humidity exceed 100 percent?
Never before nor anywhere else I went in India did I experience this combination of crushing heat and breathless humidity. It actually changed my whole body chemistry. I had always been so prone to heat stroke such that my head would pound, my blood temperature would rise to boiling and I would be physically ill from the heat. Bombay was so relentlessly so hot and so humid for so long my body just decided to learn how to sweat.
After this day I actually think I ccould survive more heat than I would have ever thought possible without having to go to the hospital.