In pictures: monsoon evenings from four rooftops

The best monsoon pictures are rarely of rain. They are of the light before and after it — the bruised sky over the market, the washed streets doubling the shop signs, the sudden kite between clouds.

Rooftops are the city's shared gallery in this season: terraces fill the moment thunder passes, and every neighbourhood photographs the same sky differently.

The frames to chase: the first big cloudbank of the evening, umbrellas negotiating a flooded corner, chai stalls glowing under tarpaulin, and the street reflected in itself.

Publish your own monsoon set from News Desk — reader-submitted rooftop photographs make this an annual feature that runs itself.