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All right, where is it?
Whoever’s got it, kindly hand it over right away, because I am SERIOUSLY running out of patience.
After all, I’ve been prepared for it since last week - the change of clothes is in place in my office locker, the holes in my house have been M-sealed, the mandatory ‘be prepared’ story has been done in the Mumbai edition of Brunch, the neighbours have been canvassed for their phone numbers in case of emergency, the tide tables have been looked up, printed out and stuck on the softboard, the raincoat has been tested under the shower, the bad words (which you will never find on this blog) have been rehearsed for motorists who zoom through puddles and get mud all over my clothes and face. Everything in my personal life is monsoon ready - everything except the monsoon itself.
Why is it raining in Delhi (well it DID, I was told, on Wednesday). And why is it raining in Bangalore (it IS, says my friend who’s burbling happily about things like masala chai and pakoras). Why is it raining EVERYWHERE BUT HERE????
HERE is where it should rain, not those places. THIS is the monsoon city, not them. It’s June 12 - two days AFTER the regular monsoon ETA. And not a drop. (Okay, in the interests of journalistic integrity, there have been drops. But there were only three drops that I met personally and for all I know, those three drops may well have originated in the AC upstairs.)
Honestly. If the challenge of finding non-bad words to express myself with weren’t so fascinating, the air around this blog would be blue with words of a highly expletive nature. As it is, I’m hamstrung by the fact that there’s no one person or department to confront with narrowed eyes, hands on hips and threats of cut-price hit men (the recession is affecting them too, apparently) unless it rains NOW.
Because unless it rains, I won’t be able to complain about the rain. And what will I blog about then?
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Loading ...Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Filed under Mumbai · Tagged Kushal Rani Gulab, monsoon, Mumbai, patience, the monsoon city
It rained in Delhi on Thursday and the way things are going it seems pretty likely that it will rain again soon enough. We might even see some hailstones.We often do.
You can try taking your angst out on the MET people. Maybe even the department in HT.
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Kushal Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Right now, I’m shaking my fist at the sky, Cynic.
Nice blog you have, btw. Was most startled to read of your CBSE English result. Maybe you write so well that the idiot examiner didn’t understand a word you wrote?
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perennialcynic Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Thanks.
I will be giving that wretched paper again next year to see if I can fare better.
I have been a fan of yours ever since I read your rant about the cold in Delhi in your column in Delhi edition.
Could you please give me a link to that?
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Kushal Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Gosh, that’s so sweet, thanks Cynic. I didn’t know anyone even remembered that column I used to do. There is no link, however. Our website didn’t archive the column and I deleted all my word files, so that’s that.
Still can’t get over your CBSE marks. Really wierd.
Well why dont u come to Delhi and get denched and then complain!!
If u come to Delhi and see rain+metro construction u will surely have things to blog about here
UnTill u come to Delhi you can wait for monsoons there and then give us a full coverage of covered words in this blog
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Kushal Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Aram, grin. And thanks, but we have metro construction of our own happening here. Not to mention construction of every other type. Enough potholes to fall into and drown in.
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Kushal Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Aram, grin. And thanks, but we have metro construction of our own happening here. Not to mention construction of every other type. Enough potholes to fall into and drown in. Assuming it ever rains, of course.
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Yeah all are preparations are pointless since the rain god seems to be very unkind to Mumbaikar this year. However rain has always brought a mixed feeling, the soaking sweat now makes us anxiously wait to get the smell of drenched earth,once it starts pouring heavily we would all start cursing it…..and when it stops we would wish it rains again.
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Kushal Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Zigzactly, Hope. We are never satisfied.
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Ditto!
I plan to rush to some film set where the mandatory rain song
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Ditto!
I plan to rush to some film set where hopefully they’ll be canning a rain song…to think of it…even rain songs have become a rarity these days
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Kushal Reply:
June 12th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
That’s because of watercuts because of no monsoon, PavementFreud. Life, I tell you!
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Interesting… But what sign on novelties of the news?
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I believe there are two metrological departments in Mumbai. Colaba and Santa Cruz. Sounds swanky !! Their predictions are usually contradictory. One of them must be right !
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rains and stock market - there is no one who can predict them. i am waiting for the rains tooo.. but i enjoy it. especially the news coverage about it. they are so funny. hahahah
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I think the Indian monsoon took our `Rain, rain go away…’ prayer during the flood-ins to heart very seriously!
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This is global warming’s solemn warning to mankind. Shape up or ship out!
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aparichit Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Agree. We have to seriously start thiking where this will all end.
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We have to seriously begin thinking where it will all end — the exact opposite of Water World perhaps!
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