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Monsoon Canopy

Throughout the year, I wait and think when the monsoon will reach my door and I will rejoice and reinvent my childhood again. Monsoon has always been my favourite season of all. The clouds clash and clanger, then the devious drops after the summer will finally smite the earth surface and we will call, finally the monsoon has arrived. Why eagerly wait for the monsoon, which gives so much trouble- getting wet, mud everywhere, insects and endless things. Monsoon conversely is a pity for many of us. But, it’s a love for me.
I was born in the month of July, when the clouds were heavily pouring rain. May be that’s the only thread if a connection is to be made, rest of all are memories. Being Bengali, I am one of those absurd one, who look to purge out from the daily duties and often like to get lost in the field of allegory. A guitar, a window, rabindra-sangeet, a cigar and khichudi in the lunch will do. I can do anything to find this opulent day on my monsoon calendar.
Have you ever tried after your teen age making a paper boat and floating it into the monsoon water lodge? May be you have done it for your kids, may be for your brother but might never did it for yourself. I do. I find myself in that boat floating into the monsoon rain. I always had this fascination in my mind, what if I was born at the place where my father was born. The Ichamati River, the cottages and the children playing and dancing with the rain on the field with that football. Monsoon has no propriety, it is not for the genteel, and that’s why like me and my heart, I am betrothed so much with this season.
Monsoon means getting older with rains. With the growing ages, we share our happiness and sadness with the rain. Imagine a day, when you are ashen, and you feel to allude from the life you have, the rain will do the things for you. It will bring back and give the peace of life. Happiness for me is monsoon in similar way. There is no perfect season for love other than monsoon, I believe. Hands in hand walk with your girl getting drenched with the rain on a Saturday evening you will longed-for.
The lambent sun, the clemency of storm, the lurching of coconut trees, the resonance of the thunders, the dilapidated houses is not the totem for the affluent people. It is for the sedentary people like me, who just crave throughout the year, to enjoy the season. Yes, I am an avaricious and I can do anything to apprehend the Monsoon.
I hope this monsoon showers happiness among all.

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