Rain Is Life

Rain brings life. Rain is essential for completing Nature's cycle of seed-seedling-sapling-plant-tree-fruit-back-to-seed!

Rain brings cheer. Cheer on the faces of children, farmers, trees, plants, flowers and animals! Suspended rain drops cast their own magic spell. Like the lone rain drop clinging to the edge of an Ashoka tree leaf below.

What does the rain do? How is it welcomed by the environment? Read our earlier story 'When it Rains'. 

Another story 'Monsoon Magic' chronicled the magic which monsoon creates in India- from misty hills to foggy roads to overflowing dams and even man made floods in places like Chennai. It also has the story of Ghumakkad and family on a cross country monsoon drive! Sharing few pictures here.

Rains nurture the growth of wild vines and flowers. Many such wild flowers have been the subject of our KBG Kaun Banega Ghumakkad online Contest. One of these is reproduced below.

It Sprouts During The Rains

Monsoon also brings floods. But these are largely man made due to encroachment of flood banks of the rivers, nalas, lakes and ponds. Do read our story titled 'Flood Fury' about a 91-year old tackling a flooded home at midnight in Hyderabad. This happened in Hyderabad in Oct 2020.

We had carried a cautionary story in Jan 2020 titled 'Shrinking Urban Lakes and Impending Disaster'. It appeared like a premonition, sadly. Our house got flooded in Oct 2020.

KBG-61 Contest

Picture of rain drops suspended from a fibre optic cable was the subject of KBG-61, the 61st edition of Kaun Banega Ghumakkad online captions contest.

Creative Captions

KBG-61 received more than 30 captions which are listed below. KBG Jury selected four of these captions as Winners.

Sl.	Name	Caption for KBG-61 Contest
1	Raghuraj Bhargava	Pearls can be found in the eyes of the beholder
2	Gouri	Nature's pearl string.
3	Gouri	Overcoming gravitational force - beautiful adhesive bond of wire and raindrop.
4	PRR Rao	बरखा लाई मोतियों की माला
5	Poonam Bhargava	Rain drops on the line are actually our life line
6	Avinash Tiwari	String of Pearls- motiyon ke maala
7	Rohini Tiwari	Har ek boond me sagar!
8	Ajai Bhumri	पानी रे पानी तेरा रंग कैसा जिसमें मिला दें लगे उस जैसा We can learn from water without having an ego, let others do not lose their colours, without losing its own importance .
9	Ajai Bhumri	Water is precious than gold
10	Peter de Padua	Will do some rain thinking!
11	Pradeep Siwach	Swati ki do boond!
12	BC Jayaprakash	Tip tip barsa paani!
13	Bharat Ladha	Paani hai to Jeevan hai, bin Paani sab soon.
14	Rashmi Bhargava	Let the rain sing you a lullaby
15	Vinay Prasad	Appreciate the Pearls of nature. Do not touch! 👍🏾
16	Sujata Das	Raindrops, raindrops, do you know? You will help the flowers grow.☔⛱
17	Amandeep kaur	Mohabbat = Baarish+Chai+aur Kishore Kumar ke gaane 😁
18	Rajendra Singh	Godsent droplets to quench Mother Earth's thirst !
19	GB Sethi	पलकों से गिरे मोती दामन ने संभाले Palkon se gire moti daman ne sambhale
20	NN Pashupathy	From pearly drops we transform to mighty torrents!
21	Vinod Dhanuka	Waxing & Waning
22	Manju Khetan	Boond jo ban gayee moti!
23	Manju Khetan	Some people can feel the rain others just get wet.
24	Veekt Baths	Life is a raindrop!
25	Ritu Bhargava	मीलों का सफर कर के आई बूंदे,खूबसूरत मोतियों के रूप में चमक रही हैं।
26	Nidhi Bhargava	ज़िन्दगी की यही रवानी जानो तो मोती, वरना बहता पानी
27	Radhika Sareen	Pearl harbour
28	Radhika Sareen	लड़ी रे लड़ी कैसी मोती से जड़ी
29	Yogesh	Inseparable
30	Neeta (non competitive)	Pearls of Wisdom
31	HB (non competitive)	Social distancing by rain drops!

KBG-61 Winners

We are happy to introduce the winners along with their winning captions. Congratulations to all the Winners.

Raghuraj Bhargava is a veteran banker who has worked in India and USA. An alumnus of NIT Warangal, he loves Nature and gardening. His caption 'Pearls can be found in the eyes of the beholder' was simple and appealing.

Amandeep Kaur is a regular participant of KBG Contests. She has won several KBG honours. A management professional she is full of life. Her humourous caption 'Mohobbat = Baarish+Chai+aur Kishore Kumar ke gaane' was an instant hit!

GB Sethi is a PhD and a former adviser to several educational institutions in Hyderabad. He has a great sense of humour. His caption in Hindi Palkon se gire moti daman ne sambhale पलकों से गिरे मोती दामन ने संभाले  roughly means Pearls in the lap of Nature.

Manju Khetan is also a regular reader of Ghumakkad's blog. She holds a degree in Literature from Delhi University and loves solving puzzles. Her caption based on Bob Marley's quotation 'Some people can feel the rain others just get wet' was very apt.

Special thanks to both the Jury members Manik Srivastava and Neeta Bhargava.

Ghumakkad teaches Entrepreneurship at a B-school. We end with my favourite quotation 'An entrepreneur is like a rain drop, never afraid of falling'!

Monsoon is around. The next KBG Contest will feature the leaves of wild vines which thrive in monsoon.

Stay connected and stay safe. Corona is not going away soon.

    - Harsh-the-Ghumakkad with Neeta Bhargava/7th Aug 2021

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