The arrival of the monsoon was a time for celebration, for the rains meant more to India than a banishment of the annual dread of drought and famine. It was a time when man sat back and looked at the glistening beauty of the earth. A time for both the land and man’s refreshment after the leaden apathy of the heat. A time for nourishment of the spirit in the exhilarating cool winds that came with the rain. A time when all felt younger, healthier, stronger; reborn. The monsoon was also the time for love, for steamy and smouldering passion, when all India believed that earth and rain joined in a
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