NANDAGOPAL Rajan
IT'S RAINING back home. The downpour hasn't stopped this week. Sister calls up to say it's "as dark as dusk at 3 in the afternoon."
"Here, it's as bright as noon at 5 in the morning," I counter. I go back to sleep.
It's a difficult task, since you have to position yourself exactly in front of the cooler – it's more of a blower when its 44 degree C outside – to catch the full draft.
Then it happens. It's the silence that hits you first. It's only later that you realise we are into another power cut. You try to dream about that cool picture of the waves lashing the Mumbai seafront you saw in the newspaper today. No, it doesn't work.
The hot beads of the sweat slowly become a steady flow. Your life juices are slowly being drained. "Good, maybe I'll melt some body fat this summer."
Nice thought. You slowly drift back into slumber. Floating atop a plantain trunk in your village pond. Nice cool green water all around you. It's all wet. "Wake up, you are in a pool of sweat."
So much for the wet dream…maybe it will rain today.
Shades of red
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A rain-drenched figure slowly ambled towards the Tharawad house. His
ebony-coloured torso covered only by a small waist clothe, the big knife in
his waist...
14 years ago
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Hi Nandu -- Even in Mumbai we are pretty wet. It is raining like mad now and everything is wet. The staircase, the walls of your home, the marble staircase in office, the seats on the railway coaches, the seats on the BEST buses, the trousers, the documents that a reporter always carries in his bag, the bag itself, and of course the umbrella, the shoes and the shoelaces. We are wet in Mumbai, thank heavens you are dry.
im sure doesn't rain more than kerala though. suman we had this way of saying our precious stuff... while the books protected us from rain, the shoes were always tucked away in water proof bag.
Interestingly, last year, Escotel came out with an ad. Only the monsoon covers kerala better than us....
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