Dear all
I had written this story Musings over unused rain coat;The Vanishing Rainy days on my blog two years ago on 29thAugust 2013,.Even two years after I feel it has relevance.Postinghere again with slight modification for perusal ofall
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SudhirMishra/Pioneer/Bolangir
AUGUST 29, 2013
The Vanishing Rainy days Musings over unused
rain coat
The Vanishing Rainy days
Musings over unused rain coat
By
Sudhir Mishra/Bolangir 29thAugust2013(
around 10.30pm)
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Bolangir;As I entered the room I
found a dress kept inside the big size polythene over files and folder, on one
of my shelves. For a moment I could not recall what is inside it and out of
curiosity, I peeped into it and brought
out, only to found the rain coat.
I tried to recall when I kept this
rain coat here and how it remains unused .After a long thought, I could recall
that with the onset of monsoon by second week of July, I had brought out it from
old Almirah, to be used in the rainy season.
However even as the month of August in
its middle(12August2015) , still the rain coat 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/five 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 by that time
.Besides regular rainfall, there would be Jhadi barsha (torrential/continuous
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 with water and the heavy rain would invariably
cause floods and at times it would be impossible go out of house for days
together .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 filedwouldbe heard invariably.
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 .The
scanty and erratic rainfall has
threatened the paddy crop and drought is looming large in the district.
The farmers without rainfall worried a lot and
spectre of drought is looming large. 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 drastically 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,
the rain coat lying unused on shelf
books and files mourns that it was not used on a single day and he (the rain coat )had to
wait for another year to be used.
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