India, Aug. 19 -- With the mid-summer sun bearing down on the weary populace and the sweltering heat confining most of them indoors, prayers all around for the skies to open up earlier than the usual period did indeed appear amusing!
For, complaining has come so very naturally to us humans! We are so low on resistance these days that the slightest of discomfort makes us cringe and look heavenwards for succour.
We however tend to forget that every climate needs to complete its circle, before the next one sets in. But considering the weather vagaries in recent times, it becomes difficult to predict the manner in which a particular season swings, for better or worse, at any given time.
Of course, climatologists have proffered a multitude of...