Greenery

you have to visit Kerala to see how many hues the colour green has. It is literally, green,greener,greenest! The paddyfields swaying in the wind,the sea of cocoanut trees, the mango trees,the jackfruit trees, the rubber trees, vying with one another to project its own shade of green,

Whenever I think of my schooldays,what immediately comes to my mind is the incessant rain,rain pelting down the rooftops,rain drenching the new books,rain making the new dresses soaking wet,footwear being made unwearable.But the rain also made the greenery greener,the flowers brighter,the streets cleaner. the onset of southwest monsoon also coincided with the start of a new class and the accompanying excitement,new clssmates,reuniting with old friends and so on! even now after so many decades,whenever we