Dear friend who live outside Bangalore,
Do you now that this picture is from last April? As one who grew up in Bangalore, I was so happy that when temperatures were rising all over India, Bangalore welcomed April showers, delightfully adorning the resplendent Gulmohur trees.
And now it is Nov.4. We had good to heavy downpours three times today. I was thinking it must be raining in Chennai, as it does in Nov., and this sympathetic rain in Bangalore is to cheer up the folks who install statues of Valluvar and frequent Murugan Idli Stall. And what if it rains again in December? I ask you, what next!!!???
When it rains in Bengaluru for six months, it has major global consequences.
- cricket matches are washed out.
- people eat too many bondas and bajjis.
- people like me have excuses for avoiding morning walks.
- people come late to work and leave early.
- the smelly drains are subdued and take their revenge sooner than later.
- roadworks are never completed.
- vegetable prices go up (I don't know why, they always go up anyway).
- Autos raise their expectations.
- umbrellas fold up, unable to weather the onslaught.
- the mood in the office is one of dreamy or sleepy chattiness as work seems a trivial issue.
- Children get wet, get sick and give big business to the million medical shops.
- adults have hoarse voices and ask for lots of coffee which irks the womenfolk at home.
- Bangalore is compared to Ooty etc.and we feel we are in a heavenly hill station.
- Street vendors and beggars are dismayed by poor income.
- mosquitoes are miserable and the only creatures more miserable are street dogs.
- Deepavali is a wet sop.
- Independence day is spent watching TV.
- Bangalore scares me that there is global wetting apart from global warming.
- I write such inane blogs.
