The months of Shrawan and Bhadrapad are the months when nature is at its best.Rain droplets,clouds playing hide and seek,moist air with fragrance of flowers around signifies love and longing.These are the months when everyone is breeding,whether it is mosquitoes,insects,reptiles,canines,flowers and plants.All the flora and fauna around at their best looking ecstasic and appearing more green ,bright and vital.There are no figures to corroborate that how much human beings breed during the period,but it is fact that opposite sexes get most promiscous during this time.It is a celebration of evolution of all living beings.It can be seen vividly seen in the writings of the indian texts by poets and story writers.In bollywood movies it has a very special significance and some of the very best song sequences has been created by the lyricists of all the times.''Mere Naina sawan Bhado'',''Lagi Aaj Sawan ki Jhari hai'',''Aaya Sawan Jhoom Ke'' are the some which comes to my mind.Thumri's and Kajri's of classical music has been based on these themes and aspects only.Mythologically it is mentioned in hindu texts that during the same period Lord Shiva and Parwati united.Devotees celebrate the festival of Teej to take the blessings from Parwati for marital bliss, happiness,health and vitality of their husbands in the Sawan month.In the Folk songs of Teej one can see the imagery of monsoons, rains,black clouds and the longing of woman to meet her lover.
With so much of love in the air during the month of Sawan,our diffrent state governments feel feared to face and cope up with it every year.Who can forget the pain of Mumbaikars two years back with all these fantasies in background.Fear Psychosis grips us all on the advent of monsoons.How funny is the situation when administrators blame it to rain god.In a study it has been revealed that Mumbai can only cope up with 40 mm of rains.How do we tell the rain god not to pour more than this???Or else why we even need the rain in Mumbai.Two days of rainfall in Delhi and city goes for toss.Still after so many years of continuous failing we are unable to tackle the situation and city going berserk.Come on lets join hands together to pray from the god to exclude cities like Mumbai,Delhi and Kolcutta from rainfalls.Ultimately we have to be dependent on these policymakers and administrators who are not able to develop the infrastructure to tackle the situation.This is the price we pay for development.We get far far away from the small pleasures which we long for.Instead of enjoying we bemoan and lament the monsoons to get rid off as fast as possible.Living in Metro's we do not have any pleasurable memories associated with it.Next generation would not be able to associate Sawan's significance which is in our writings and scriptures with current state of affairs.
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