In 2021, while everyone was shutting their doors to the outside world in a hope to escape the pandemic, the renowned photographer Rohit Chawla sought refuge under the monsoon skies of Goa. Except for a few stray dogs, the beaches were deserted. As he walked along the beach, the stray dogs followed him and began to photograph them, finding in them a mirror, a frame for his own vulnerability. He often wondered whether the dogs were also able to sense that he needed help as much as they did. And so it was that Rain Dogs came to be: as an exhibition and as a book, with contributions from some thirty writers complementing Rohit's very personal photographs that capture a time, a place, and a mood.

Rain Dogs is a book to which the writers have contributed for free, and the author and the agent have waived their royalties, which will all go to registered animal welfare charities.