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Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 03:01

Rain in Maharashtra----------------------------------
When it rains in our town, my mind dances a la My Fair Lady, “ The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain”. Rainy season is special season in India unlike in the west. Rain in San Francisco is never torrential, it is always very slow or lukewarm when the forecast is rains in the afternoon, it certainly rained but one never felt rains in its splendor. Slow drizzle at the most but enough to make everything wet. In India rains come unannounced and fierce. The scramble before first rains is amusing. First rains is invariably accompanied by strong winds and that plays havoc. First the winds start playing mischief and then rains follows with thunder and lightning, just imagine what befalls on the people. Sheer joy! When winds starts blowing little children sing ‘Rain, rain come and I will give you a coin but the coin is fake, in spite rains come cats and dogs’. Indeed, the first rains bring immense joy and happiness in India. Whole nature is thirsty for the rains. Whole nature is covered by omnipresent dust. So the first sound of rain is music to everybody’s ears. Tap tap tap the big drops begin showering they make everybody dance with joy. Irrespective of the fearful dance of thunder and lightning. Not only children but the elders also bow before the God Almighty for His bounty.
Time and again I tell many of my friends that rainy season has shifted one month due to effect of global warming. But the poor chaps begin expecting rains right from end of May. Official date of the start of rains is seventh of June or at the most 10th. They say rains have delayed if it does not come in June. We fail to take into account the factor of global warming and its effects on environment. So now the rain in October is not untimely gentlemen. But the rains in October are very fierce taking into account the damage they have done. Moreover the damage is everywhere, in Konkan as well as entire Maharashtra. The worst part is that it has affected standing crops bringing tears to eyes of already beleaguered farmers, as it is rains bring smile to one eye and tears to another. In our state, we have not to reason why, we have but to do and die. This seems to be the policy of Rain God. We want the rains by hook or crook. Jay rains!