An Ancient Memory
Greetings! It has been raining a lot this year. But as the cold winds invaded our hemisphere, the clouds dispersed. The Sun too, got an opportunity to spread warmth over the day, through these gusts. Just like swirls of golden yellow through a pale blue canvas. Few days back it was told that there is a cyclone coming up somewhere near the coast, and it may bring in the rains. I could see in the faces of people, that this was as unwelcome as a wayward draft of cold wind in a warm quilt in this season! Anyhow, the nature, as is her majestic unassuming and yet unrelenting style - brought in the dark clouds. Those harbingers of monsoon when the time is right and ominous sun-blocking mood-crushing shapeless vagabonds when it is not! It had been grey, gloomy and dull since morning. The sky seemed pregnant with rain but was bearing it with a cover of fluffy whitish clouds at the edges. And then, nearer to the evening, as the grey started showing orange-saffron hues, it...