It's wonderful that the rains are here now. After days and days of heat and humidity, the rains seem to be a perfect bliss to everyone...it's not only the rains, not only waters and not only the water logging...it is also about the cool north wind, the clustering nimbus clouds in the sky...gray against a bright blue...it's about a refreshing smell with the green leaves turning greener and roses redder...
Everything gives a feeling of wetness...starting from the clothes in the clothes-line to the towels in the towel stand...the clothes that are hung on the roof for drying often come back wetter than ever at the end of the day...window sills and railings always have rain water dripping...lone crows perching on the street lamps...feathered sparrows all hoch poch with the water...dogs running around for a shelter...
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It's lovely to have a sky full of dark clouds in the morning...rustling breeze swishing through the trees and drizzling rain forming a delicate net outside the windows. It's lovely when schools declare a "rainy day"...it's even lovelier to rush for the school bus before the rain catches you, your bag stuffed with raincoats and umbrellas...and, it's heavenly to return home late wading through the water logged streets at the end of the day!It's heavenly to come home and be pampered by your mother with plates full of sizzling fries and hot cups of bournvita or steaming coffee...
The rain follows its own sweet rhythm and goes on pattering...the clouds go on grumbling...what does it matter! We are at home now...tucked under the warm sheets, it's a divine feeling to hear the pittar-patter raindrops at your window sill...the frogs still croaking and the insects buzzing away...
The cool rain outside makes the homes warmer and cozier...the notes and the melody of the rain are lovelier than the loveliest music ever composed...and it takes you to some distant dreamland...while, Kolkata continues to bathe...bathe in the loveliest music of nature...
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Its grand and too happy and comfortable and young.
:)
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very different from yours, but also real. As 'Real' as yours.:)
Couple of days earlier i came out of the office and found the streets wet with the first splashes of monsoon.i found it quite amusing that once you are in the office,you are insulated from the outside world,you are pampered in the best possible way in the office with all the food and amenities that you somehow don't get to know what is happening outside.and now i think of the days during the rainy season in calcutta.rains remind me of my days in school,how it used to bring a smile into our face,how our heart pounded with energy to go and play football in the rains,get drenched like a crow,getting all muddy,getting rebuked by my mother for being a naughty boy.this writing really got me down the memory lanes.surely,i don't have the writing prowess to type away all my feelings;but i can say this....
ohh,the first splash of rain,the first drop that relieves all pain/the first rain is like the first kiss,you get all drenched with divine bliss...
keep the good work going..
P.S..durga puja niye aro lekho.
wow.. brilliant writing.. :) especially the part running home after school and be pampered by mom and crispy snacks.. drives anyone nostalgic!
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