It’s been raining continuously since last night. The rains began since day-before yesterday and the weather is so beautiful ! Overcast skies, a cool breeze blowing and ‘raindrops falling on my face’ :)
This morning, on my way to office, I was singing loudly on the bike, as I usually do in the rains. I was happily singing rain songs :) I remembered that long ago I had written about the images that such weather brings. I dug it up, re-read it and felt so refreshed. I felt I had to share it again…with some additions. So here are the images conjured by the rains...
Rushing out in the garden to get drenched in the first rain....
Leaving the sit-out door open, sitting in the door, with a cup of tea in one hand and a book in the other with music in the background...
Sudden burst of excitement in office as somebody shouts while running out, “There’s a hail-storm…lets go to the terrace”…running to the terrace with friends in office, gathering hailstones and eating them gleefully like children…
Hurriedly making bhajiya and then eating them while sitting at the window staring at the rains...
Rushing to the University in the rains (without jackets or raincoats, of course) and then having chai and wada-paav at Shantiniketan - our fave food joint that's situated under a huge canopy of trees (and hence the name)...
Leaving office at 9 p.m. one day in very heavy rains…totally packed in rain-gear…feeling very scared driving through knee-high water at places…taking an hour and fifty minutes to traverse a distance that is usually covered in forty minutes…arriving dead tired mentally and physically…
Driving to Mulshi lake on the bike with rain literally beating down on the face, visibility dangerously low...
Caught in the floods of Calcutta in one monsoon...taking a tempo to the station to catch the train back to Pune...sitting on the station with thousands of others stranded for the next 24 hours....high fever....limited tea and biscuits to keep us going...
Standing on Marine Drive in Mumbai, huge waves rising way above my head and crashing on the pavement...I'm drenched to the bone...
Rainy shoes, jacket, scarf, helmet, a poncho raincoat to cover it all...finally on the bike...feel like a warrior going to the battlefield...
Standing atop Dimna Dam near Tatanagar....suddenly the rain starts and it is really heavy....a mist envelopes us...the dam, the lake, the tiny island in the middle of the lake, the mountains surrounding the lake on all sides, the world....I'm in heaven :)
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The rain imagery is vivid and a great read.