Raining since days… And, I am not still bored of it! Today, this day I was sure it would rain. No! I am not a meteorologist and I cannot study clouds. But ever since I can remember, maybe for last 12 years or so, it always rains in this day. Today is celebrated by the Hindus as the birthday of Lord Krishna, one of the most loved mythical characters. He was supposed to be an incarnations of one of the Holy Trinity. He has been characterized as being, playful, intelligent, clever, occasionally shrewd, courageous and lovable. He was supposed to be a wonderful flute player and also had given the Hindu religion one of its most important philosophical texts, The Geeta literally meaning the divine song. It is supposed to have the condensed knowledge of Vedas and Upanishads.

But, I am thinking about rains… I have no idea why it rains every year in this place on this day! Maybe a mere’ coincidence!! Rain is considered a good omen! But, I know rains are bothersome when one has to walk around, and esp. in the place I live, people generally tend to walk around as everything necessary is near enough! And, it is rather easy to sit in the city, walk on paved roads with nice clothes and curse the rain coz one steps on those little puddles on the sidewalks, or suddenly discovers that ones dress has been splattered with little muddy blobs making it look like some modern art. But, then rain also means food. How?? Well much of our agriculture depends solely on rain water for irrigation, and rains means wet soaked paddy fields promising food for the year! I remember the farmers were anxious this year coz the monsoons came late. But, now I guess the paddy fields are all wet and green and people are a bit happy! With monsoons, things are scary, heavy rains somewhere would mean drought elsewhere! And, esp. since my country is landlocked and agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, monsoons are so very important!

Mythology, I am reading a lot of mythology now-a-days. And, it is fun! Strangely the immortal mythological stories are about the same themes that novels today are about. The same conflicts, the same feelings are addressed sometimes subtly and other times not. But it gives me stuffs to dream about, magnificent palaces, brave warriors, magical lands, wise sages etc. etc. Ha ha! Crazy me!