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  1. `Nero’ Pawar fiddles as India prays for rain

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    / July 24, 2012 / 2 Comments
    India is staring at a 22 per cent rainfall deficit with states like Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, the worst affected. The storage in major reservoirs in 61 per cent of last year’s levels. Sowing has been lost in 80 lakh hectares. The immediate impact is likely to be on...

  2. Karnataka to pray to Rain God

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    / July 21, 2012 / 1 Comment
    At the entrance to Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore is inscribed : `Government’s work is God’s work’. New chief minister Jagadish Shettar seems to have taken it literally by ordering all 34000 temples in Karnataka to conduct special poojas to pray for rain. The state is reeling under drought with over...

  3. `Dry day’ during monsoon

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    / June 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Monsoon is the season to get wet but authorities in Hyderabad want you to observe a `dry day’ once in a week. Lest you get it wrong, this is an effort to check the mosquito menace and the spread of malaria this monsoon. The state health department wants everyone to...

  4. Monsoon reaches Kerala

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    / June 5, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The pre-monsoon showers have been on in Kerala for the last 2-3 days but the monsoon was not yet official. The Met department was waiting for the 14 designated stations along the west coast, mostly in Kerala (like Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Thrissur) to report 2.5 mm or more rainfall for two...

  5. Ifs and buts of predicting the monsoon

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    / July 3, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Narasimha Reddy   The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has been tracking the progress of the monsoon since it landed on the Kerala coast. Based on this, farmers prepared their lands, purchased seeds and started sowing. A significant majority is dependent on rainfed agriculture. Cotton is now a major crop...

  6. When the monsoon reaches Mumbai

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    / June 12, 2011 / 3 Comments
    It is that time of the year when India changes her colour from dusty brown to a million shades of green, aided by the dark clouds that roll in from the south-west. The bright sun gets time to take a break as the dark clouds take over, showering giant droplets and coloring...

  7. The Kerala monsoon, off and on screen !

    Posted by Rima Kallingal
    / June 5, 2011 / 3 Comments
    It was in `City of God’ that I shot for the first time in artificial rain at Wellington Island. It was the film’s climax scene and it was quite an experience for someone who has enjoyed the Kerala rain every season since childhood, to shoot in water released from a...

  8. The monsoon is a different ballgame

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    / June 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Come monsoon, my mother can’t stop rewinding to her childhood spent in Thiruvilwamala in Kerala’s Thrissur district. As Hyderabad experienced the first pre-monsoon shower yesterday, I heard my mother telling Tejaswini (my daughter) how her school would reopen on the day the monsoon would set foot in Kerala. My guess...

  9. Rain, rain please don’t go away

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    / June 2, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By V Desikan   “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton So the monsoon keeps its time this year as well. Kerala coast, June 1, 2011.  In the 1950s, I like most children...

  10. Blame it on the rain

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    / May 30, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By M S Hussain   The headline is from a song of the same name. It was performed by a German band called Milli Vanilli, which, sadly, turned out to be a pair of charlatans who had successfully passed themselves off as singers in the late eighties, and were awarded a Grammy for their...

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