Monsoon arrives quite early in Darjeeling compared to other parts of India. Infact the wet season starts from May onwards and can stretch up to October end! Sad part is we do not have enough water to suffice the entire community - Water water everywhere, not a drop to drink!
But there is a positive side of the monsoon that I always love about. Darjeeling looks fresh and green. The sun plays hide and seek with the mist and the clatter of rain on a tin roof provides the perfect music for a weary soul trying to get some sleep. Its pure bliss to be in Darjeeling during the rains. Children walking to school with oversized rain coats and undersized umbrellas, the windscreen wiper of your car swinging left and right endlessly, snow white waterfalls everywhere along the hill cart road.
I always miss school days. We used to walk inside the drain so that the water could flow over our rubber (gum) boots. It used to be so exciting, like walking in a river. And later in College the fun was in sharing an umbrella with your girlfriend. Further on in life it changed to sharing a rickshaw in the rain with the plastic sheet covering both of us and creating a complete private space!!!
Tell me about your monsoon story, am sure you have one...
Sam
