Idle musings

MUMBAI RAINS     I took the day off from work yesterday. In the morning, I completed the work for which I had applied leave. In the afternoon, I switched on the TV and felt a blast from the past as I saw the news channel : there were heavy rains in Mumbai. I have fond memories of the monsoon deluges in Mumbai !     My school is in a low lying area and when the rain came down heavily, I would leave home for school with a hope in my heart that school would be closed ! During school, I had such holidays in school perhaps only twice, but the memory of those days lingers and form an indelible part of my "happy memories of school". A close friend and I used to walk, wearing raincoats and gum boots to school. We used to walk up a bridge, then descend from it - and there was our school. If the rains were heavy, the water used to come up to the knee level and walking (or wading !) in it would become an exciting experience for us ! To reach school and then learn of the holiday trigger