The Vanishing
Rainy days
Musings over
unused rain coat
By
Sudhir
Mishra/Bolangir 29st August2013( around 10.30pm)
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As I entered
the room I found a dress kept inside big size polythene over files and folder on
one of my shelves. For a moment I could not recall what is inside and out of curiosity,
I peeped in and brought out only to be found the rain coat.
I tried to
recall when I kept this rain coat here and how it remains unused .After a long
though I could recall that with the onset of monsoon by second week of July I
had brought it out from old Almirah to
used in the rainy season and kept the last year dress there in.
However even
as the month of August coming to end (31st August,) still it remain unused.
This led me to think about the earlier days. The rainy season consist of four months
namely June, July, August, and September. Then (Four decades ago) most of the people
in rural and urban areas had no such rainy coat .People were using umbrella
.The rainy season would start by the second week of June there would be regular
rain and kharif paddy cultivation process would commence .Besides regular rainfall
there would be Jhadi barsha (torrential rain) accompanied with strong wind for
days together bringing the normal life to grinding halt.
Schools
would be closed due to leaking roofs or wet surface and young boys/girls and
students would play on the rain water flowing on the road and there would also be flood .And the most troublesome months of
rainy season was the month of August .Due
to continuous rain all the river ,ponds, well are filled and the heavy rain
would invariably cause floods and at times it would be impossible go out of
house .Where ever you look there would be water with cloudy sky for days
together and the sounds of frog croaking from the paddy filed or road side
filed.
As the years
passed people started using stylish umbrella rather than the big umbrella which
was very cumbersome to carry .However as the trend changed the rain coat come into
vogue replacing the umbrella and almost all started using rain coats. As these are
made of polythene, unless there is heavy rain, a person finds it very
uncomfortable to wear .
Although
there was rain this year, in the town , there was no such jhadi barasha(
continuous rain).Even if there was rain
it was on patches and erratic and often there was rain in nights which managed
the water requirement of paddy and other cultivation and even kharif crop .
Although the
farmers sighed relief with rainfall, the rain coat, which is made of polythene
could not be used even once showing that the intensity of rain and number of
rainy days have declined and it has virtually going out and vanishing.
While expert
simply points out the vanishing Jhadi Barsha(continuous rain at times
accompanying with strong wind ) and
decline in number of rainy days here, due the deforestation global
warming and climate change and stress for appropriate measures to combat, it the rain coat lying on shelf books and files mourns that not a single days it
was used he had to wait for another year to be use.
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