India, June 29 -- It's that time of year again when the rainy season is at the doorstep and one is not sure whether it's going to rain cats and dogs, or whether one has saved enough for the rainy day.

Come monsoon, and these are just some of the rain idioms one ends up pondering about.

How digital life has perhaps even rendered redundant some monsoon proverbs and rain ditties.

How technology has even transformed the ways in which we get rain ready.

In these times of artificial rain, a la Dubai's fake cloud fiasco, not sure whether we should be saving for a rainy day or saving for a fake rainy day.

Or take "My Fair Lady's" fabled rain ditty. Were Hollywood's late diva Audrey Hepburn to do an Eliza Doolittle in this digital era, she ma...