Five volunteers set up near the swimming pool in Salt Lake for the twelfth Sharbat Seva drive, handing out fruit-infused, chilled Rooh Afza to swimmers and passersby cooling off from the May heat. The poolside crowd made for an easy, appreciative audience.
By the end of the session, the team had distributed 20 litres of sharbat, one more stop in a campaign that's found its rhythm serving cold relief wherever Kolkata's heat bites hardest.