again it rained.......

Last night again it rained...Not the heavy rain that floods the flower-bed in my balcony.But the relentless long water droplets falling as straight lines.Dark sky. And I couldn't but keep watching it for quite some time until slumber took me over.I've always wondered about the rain like a million people who've written so poetically about the rain.But still there's a certain charm about it.The rain is always enchanting.

This was after a long time that I was noticing rain so closely.I had become quite mechanical over the last few months during my Hyderabad days.Not that it did not rain in the city of Nizam.It did and many times it did rain.Actually after my first week in the city it rained heavily and the local cigarette shop-wala acknowledged that it was after nine long years he's witnessing such a heavy rain.

I always see the rain through the window in my bed room.The sight is almost like statistical graph.The vertical long train of rain drops virtually intersecting the horizontal window grills.Too much of imagination.But i haven't seen the rain gently embracing the lush green paddy fields or making infinite ripples in the river the way i've read about it.I haven't seen the rain with all the beauty and charm the poets have attributed to it.But still rain is enchanting.

Sometimes it was difficult to see the sky in hyderabad.The tall concrete edifices shrouds the vision. Then the rain is like a curtain.I used to sit in the balcony of my apartment watching the balcony of the opposite apartment through the rain curtain hoping that the girl living over there would come out to see the rain.No!!..She wasn't beautiful.But the way i hoped she'd come out to see the rain I also hoped she'd look beautiful through the rain curtain.But neither happened.

I've seen the rain in many parts of the country.The quick heavy ones in bangalore and the 48 hour non stop rain in delhi.The rain that pours down sweet and yellow in the desert of jaisalmer and the rain that appears less dense than the population of mumbai when you're traveling in a mumbai local.The rain as a welcome change in the sweltering heat of chennai and the rain that's incredibly beautiful as the backdrop of puppet shows in gwalior.I've been lucky.

I've been lucky.So many people have written about the rain and it rains quite often.But still, when the rain came down from heaven yesterday night it was something which i had never seen.Enchanting and enigmatic as never before......