Rainfall and voting
In India, there are only a few things to be sure: the price of onions will rise before the election, the Indian-Pakistan game will be described as “beyond cricket” and the monsoon will never hold elections. The calendar is ruthless: Our great democratic gala unfolds in the comfort of spring or winter. By June, when the clouds gathered and the first raindrops, the ballot box was already hidden. coincide? Almost nothing.
It’s not that the Indian monsoon is the end of the world. It’s not Hurricane Katrina, Harvey, or Typhoon with Viking’s name. In fact, rainwater acts strangely in most cases. It arrives roughly as planned, cooling the earth, restoring groundwater, and giving farmers a reason to exhale. But let it rain for two hours in Gurgaon, and suddenly, Millennium City looks like an audition video for Atlantis. Bob is like a twelve hearts gondola, office buildings turn into an aquarium, and WhatsApp is full of memes about company executives rowing.
The problem is not that rain is disastrous. The problem is that it is revealing.
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The views expressed above are the author’s own.
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