The title of this blog may create an uneasy feeling because rain is always romantic and it is associated with regeneration and rebirth. For me, it is just a pain in the wrong place. I remember my prof from MCC, Mr Ganesh talking about the romantic concept of the rain. I still don’t know whether it is his quote or is a borrowed one. Anyway, the words were thought provoking. Rain is romantic and poetic to all those people who have a proper roof above their heads. The less fortunate among the mortals gets drenched in the rain and may end up with a severe cold or fever. Right from our childhood we are conditioned to hate the rain. I still remember the nursery rhyme that was drilled into me as a ‘LKG scholar’.
Rain rain, go away,
Come again another day.
Little Johnny wants to play;
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
Never show your face again!
Children are always advised and cautioned to keep a safe distance from Rain. Rain is always portrayed as a ‘natural villain’. Because of the rain as children we had always missed some outdoor actions. To stay indoors (sans power) was a difficult experience. I cannot exactly recollect how many times my parents have cancelled outings citing rain as a wonderful reason.
A die hard cricket fan will hate a game which got cancelled due to rain. I feel that the Duckworth-Lewis method (D/L method) was invented to escape the cruel nature of the unnatural effect of this natural phenomenon.
My mother used to curse the rain especially when the clothes remain wet for days together. Even I hate the rain because of the frequent power cuts and for creating an eerie kind of atmosphere. Lightning’s and thunderstorms make the ambience spookier. The roads become slushy and inaccessible. The so called homeless ones will find it extremely difficult to cook something outdoors. Rainy season is also the time for a battalion of diseases. From a common cold the range of disease will extend to cholera. The public works department will have some difficulty to welcome as a romantic entity. The sewage gets clogged and they get lots of complaints. The Army, instead of fighting the enemy who is standing across the border will participate in relief operations and flood management.
Rainy season is also the time when TV is flooded with ads of umbrellas. Most of these ads show children playing in the rain and enjoying the act of splashing water on each other.. The way cinema handles and hyper-glorifies rain in a romantic way has some serious effects on the mind of people. The rain and the subsequent ‘kiss’ in the movie ‘Raja Hindustani’ stays in the psyche of the audience as exactly the producers of the movie wanted. I am sure that many would have seen the flick for that 'stolen kiss'. Rain is so unromantic that there should be re-thinking about these drops of water that comes from God-knows-from-where.
Rain rain, go away,
Come again another day.
Little Johnny wants to play;
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
Never show your face again!
Children are always advised and cautioned to keep a safe distance from Rain. Rain is always portrayed as a ‘natural villain’. Because of the rain as children we had always missed some outdoor actions. To stay indoors (sans power) was a difficult experience. I cannot exactly recollect how many times my parents have cancelled outings citing rain as a wonderful reason.
A die hard cricket fan will hate a game which got cancelled due to rain. I feel that the Duckworth-Lewis method (D/L method) was invented to escape the cruel nature of the unnatural effect of this natural phenomenon.
My mother used to curse the rain especially when the clothes remain wet for days together. Even I hate the rain because of the frequent power cuts and for creating an eerie kind of atmosphere. Lightning’s and thunderstorms make the ambience spookier. The roads become slushy and inaccessible. The so called homeless ones will find it extremely difficult to cook something outdoors. Rainy season is also the time for a battalion of diseases. From a common cold the range of disease will extend to cholera. The public works department will have some difficulty to welcome as a romantic entity. The sewage gets clogged and they get lots of complaints. The Army, instead of fighting the enemy who is standing across the border will participate in relief operations and flood management.
Rainy season is also the time when TV is flooded with ads of umbrellas. Most of these ads show children playing in the rain and enjoying the act of splashing water on each other.. The way cinema handles and hyper-glorifies rain in a romantic way has some serious effects on the mind of people. The rain and the subsequent ‘kiss’ in the movie ‘Raja Hindustani’ stays in the psyche of the audience as exactly the producers of the movie wanted. I am sure that many would have seen the flick for that 'stolen kiss'. Rain is so unromantic that there should be re-thinking about these drops of water that comes from God-knows-from-where.
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