Monsoon is here
It arrived before time this year. Bangalore is at is best now. Its cool, breezy with occasional stack dumps from clouds moving northwards. Its that time of the year when you have to reach out for the light jacket from your closet.
I grew up in Shillong (which is quite close to Cherrapunji) and from June thru September it would just pour. Sometimes 3 to 4 inches each day for 15 days at a stretch. It was great because the city never flooded, all the water went down to Bangladesh and those poor fellows bore the brunt. Schools were never closed because if that became the norm we'd have a 3 month monsoon vacation too.
Monsoons in Bangalore is much more sedate much like everything else in this city. Up until a few years back things were not as bad. A tree or two would fall but you wouldn't get stuck in traffic for hours as it happened to me before the 2003 Diwali when I had gone to Hosur to get crackers at a discount. It rained on the way back and Hosur road (Bangalore's IT lifeline) was under water. Before Dharam Singh came to power it would not disrupt your life like it does in other parts of India unless you were conned by a builder to buy a flat or plot of land on a dry tank bed.
Hopefully there will be enough rains this year so that the Cauvery river can quench the thirst of a few of the folks in Tamil Nadu too...
I had started writing this blog just when the monsoons has started but could not complete it for various reasons...so far the monsoons have been good in Bangalore and Karnataka. The weather has been awesome. I am really beginning to like this city.
I grew up in Shillong (which is quite close to Cherrapunji) and from June thru September it would just pour. Sometimes 3 to 4 inches each day for 15 days at a stretch. It was great because the city never flooded, all the water went down to Bangladesh and those poor fellows bore the brunt. Schools were never closed because if that became the norm we'd have a 3 month monsoon vacation too.
Monsoons in Bangalore is much more sedate much like everything else in this city. Up until a few years back things were not as bad. A tree or two would fall but you wouldn't get stuck in traffic for hours as it happened to me before the 2003 Diwali when I had gone to Hosur to get crackers at a discount. It rained on the way back and Hosur road (Bangalore's IT lifeline) was under water. Before Dharam Singh came to power it would not disrupt your life like it does in other parts of India unless you were conned by a builder to buy a flat or plot of land on a dry tank bed.
Hopefully there will be enough rains this year so that the Cauvery river can quench the thirst of a few of the folks in Tamil Nadu too...
I had started writing this blog just when the monsoons has started but could not complete it for various reasons...so far the monsoons have been good in Bangalore and Karnataka. The weather has been awesome. I am really beginning to like this city.
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