Kolkata Hails The First Monsoon Shower
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Kolkata hails the first monsoon shower

Chairperson Post Graduate Dept
At last Kolkata is drenched in the monsoon showers. The rains always bring sad experience for the Kolkata people. The drains being overflooded, roads inundated, houses collapsing and drinking water being scarce. But this evening after so much of 'Allah megh de, Pani de'( O god, give us cloud , give us water) , at last rains came not in torrents but in moderate showers.

The day ends well and all's well that ends well. The day that burns like the fag ends of the cigarettes at last gets some solace , some cold after so much of heat.

Many are found getting wetted . Some have carried umbrellas but very reluctant to open them. Rain is blessing to them. So why miss the chance of being blessed. The home-coming school children with their parents show all sorts of disobedience for coming out of the umbrella . The proverb goes: Two heads under one umbrella is worse than one head under two umbrellas. So the children cannot be blamed. Everyday the parent take two umbrellas. But no rain was there. Who knows it will come today? So two heads under one umbrella and the child cannot be blamed.

The urchins in Kolkata make a rainy day a festivity. They wade in rain waters, some again take a bath in the dirty water. The senior citizens have felt vexed by the buses splashing dirty water while rushing to overtake each other. The manholes have been opened. Nobody knows who will fall into such manholes unknowingly. May god forbid such tragedy today when we enjoy the heavenly rains. Rain , rain, rain, everyone enjoys rain today at home and outside home. The cloud overcast with clouds and the golden rain water downpoured on every heads, the great leveller rain , we welcome you once again.

Tagore praised rains. He wrote so many poems on rain. So many songs on Varsha, but in Kolkata rainy season is not so comfortable as Tagore saw it in Bolpur. Winter is the best season for Kolkata. But today the scenario is different. All have shared the joy and joy shared becomes double.

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