Cold on the Ganges

 This year the whole of central India are unprecedented, even for January cold. Most of the day the region is covered with fog, heavy and joyless, as if the dough from third-flour. Daytime temperature does not rise above twelve, and at night varies near the mark in three degrees. It seems just a little colder, and temples porastut thin needles of frost. The sun breaks through just to midday, but even then shines through force, gradually dying to five in the evening. "