Soothing Clouds Provide Benediction

The grey clouds heaped up on one another and looking like a dark canvas are sometimes painted with lightning. The heavy rain has added more colour to the natural beauty of the city of Kolkata today.

However, the drizzles are still there to soothe both the people and the region from the blistering temperature that increased up to 37 degree. Now it feels like the drops can heal and rescue all the residents from the previously premature, summer-like weather.

In spite of this, the passengers as well as the pedestrians felt a kind of disgust while it was pouring cats and dogs. It appeared so because of their getting late in approaching the respective destinations.

Still, the showers seemed to be emblematic of divine bliss and benediction to some of the people, as and when, the large drops filled up their hearts with utmost joy and mirth. It was evident when the children going to school were hopping on the puddles with their smiling faces.

“Stop doing that, I say,” the mother of a prancing, little kid was overheard. However, the lovely, innocent and joyous girl did not bother to pay any heed to what her Mom said.

That was perhaps because she had found and yearned to utilise the opportunity of a lifetime. The seniors call it “seize the day”.

When the scorching beams of the Sun endeavour heart and soul to provide cracks to the ground, the regaling raindrops arrive in order to drench our dry hearts and to make the earth sodden with lots of blessings.

Mom used to say in my childhood, “Whenever you fall in deep trouble, God will respond you, if you pray to Him wholeheartedly.” Now it is perceptible that the advent of the rain is nothing but an objectification of the Supreme Being.

Sarcastically, it appears to be a reminder of the plight of Raju, the central protagonist in R. K. Narayan's The Guide. The character had to flop down to bring rain with his fraudulent attitude.