WORDPLAY: RAIN

FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:

WORDPLAY:  RAIN

 

This is an attempted WORDPLAY with similarly rhyming words vis-à-vis the recent unprecedented RAIN in Chennai:

 

The RAIN BOON turned a BANE!

 

What did you LEARN and/or EARN from the recent heavy RAIN in Chennai?

 

RAIN – GAIN or PAIN, or perhaps a mix of both?

 

The red-alert given was SPINE-chilling for people who had to CONFINE themselves to their homes. The CHAIN RAIN had its REIGN over our REGION for days together with the SUN not allowed to SHINE. While the MAIN objective of water has been achieved, the water RUN-OFFS made us RUN from pillar to post. (Even the pillars and posts became slanting and/or submerged presenting a pathetic SCENE). It was more THAN what was SEEN with one’s eyes. And with the TIMELINE of the threat extending from time to time, the BOON of RAIN unfortunately turned BANE for many. To be PLAIN, the experiences were a nightmare and catastrophe, as the ordeals started to LINE UP.

 

Once the skies BEGAN to DARKEN, there was hope on the water front, but alas, with the record-breaking heavy rains lashing with resultant trail of hassles, positive thinking started to DECLINE.

 

With a long period of sunny and water-starved days making us PINE for the arrival of monsoon, the unprecedented RAINS battered and pounded the city posing a BEELINE of civic woes and offering many a LESSON to LEARN from.

 

With most DRAIN systems not working properly, the authorities had to scratch their BRAIN; people looked at the situation with DISDAIN. But, for the URCHINS, it was a FINE and FUN experience with the TOWN virtually afloat. They looked up with an infectious GRIN splitting their faces in joy. They enjoyed the DIN of the roaring winds, and gushing and puddles of water. Vehicles including buses and TRAINS could not ply for a couple of days with the TURN of events going beyond control.

 

Many hapless people had experienced the CHURN effects, longing and craving for them to WANE but in VAIN.

 

Much water had FLOWN under the bridge since 2015 Chennai flood disaster, but NONE was KEEN and SANE enough to EXPLAIN the flaws and make appropriate PROVISIONS with a right MISSION and VISION to avoid the MISFORTUNE, AGAIN and AGAIN.

 

Whether the authorities concerned OWN or DISOWN responsibility, the present UNCLEAN conditions have to be reversed to restore the KNOWN SHEEN of Chennai, and not RUIN it. There is a need to MAINTAIN the system CLEAN and make it REMAIN salubrious. For achieving it, the authorities have to find and deploy the right ways and MEANS.

 

Let us hope for the needful in readiness to be DONE  and put in place in ADVANCE at least in future.

 

(R.SAMPATH)

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