Cycle of Cliches
There’s an hour and a half for the next lecture.
For Jaanvi, rain is like memories – repetitive, undying and surprising. Starting with a few inadvertent spells in February during Boxonto Panchami, every year, rain gives life to a whole bunch of new love tales in the college campus, in the adjacent Nehru Park, in the busy streets and noisy restaurants around Panbozar and other places in the city, between coming-of-age men and women; then in mid-April, it clears the dust off the earth and revitalizes every bit of green the city is left with amid the rapidly growing concrete, with the rhythmic Bohagi beats of the Dhol, the soul stirring tunes of the flute, the alluring call of the Pepa, with th