Song Of The Rain
Khalil Gibran
Song
Of The Rain was included in the famous book Tears And Laughter by the U.S-
Arabic- Lebanese poet Khahlil Gibran who wrote it
in free verse. It is written in the form of the Rain herself singing her song
as she comes down. Rain is beautifully personified here. This poem is one of the classic poem
that is most extensively read. This poem will surely pop out a different way to look
at rain and enjoy its beauty till the extreme. we enjoyed reading and appreciating it in our text syllabus the previous year..enjoy.....
About The Poet
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of the Ottoman Mount Lebanon mutasarrifate), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. He is chiefly known in the English speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, and became extremely popular in the 1960s counterculture. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.
About The Poet
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of the Ottoman Mount Lebanon mutasarrifate), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. He is chiefly known in the English speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, and became extremely popular in the 1960s counterculture. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.
Meghadoot“Meghadoot”, meaning the Cloud Messenger, is a deep study of the rain feature in India
starting from the east and proceeding all through the nation.
It is a rather an enigma of how Kalidas (4th century poet) could, on sheer imagination visualize the geographical demo graph of the rain (monsoon) feature without having travelled across the country ever, to see its progress. It is amazing that to date the feature is observed by meteorologists and they study the same through cloud movements, wondering how Kalidas the poet could visualize this so accurately way back then. |
Book Review
Rain In The Mountains
Imagine the fragrance of freshly drenched earth, with the season’s first rain. How it cleanses your senses, relaxes and freshens you better than any other thing. Rain in the mountains, is one such book, which feels like a dose of tranquilizer. A collection of prose and poetry from Mr. Bond’s life, it details 30 years of his time spent in the hills, amongst his close friends, nature, and his adopted family.
The book traces his path back to India, and how he doesn’t need to justify his love for this country. The writing once again is simple, elegant and nudges us towards taking some time off from our busy lives and to know the simple people of the hills.
The journal starts with a witty prologue, with Bond telling how he came to put together this book and some anecdotes about his work life before he started writing full time. Bond carefully describes the advent and origin of the pieces written here, with the same reminiscent nostalgic air found in all his works.
‘Bells in the hills. A school-bell ringing, and children’s voices drifting through an open window. A temple bell heard faintly from across the valley. Heavy silver ankle bells on the feet of sturdy hill women. Sheep bells heard high up on the mountainside.’
After which the book is divided in 5 sections, each section denoting the end of a decade, and the change and constancy in Mr. Bonds thinking and living. Every section is interspersed with bits and pieces of stories, essays, and poems. All of them memoirs of a romantic in a true sense.
Why should you go for this book? If you have read even one of Bonds works, then you must have realized the magical quality and simplicity in his words. This work is not exactly a work of fiction, but a compilation of thoughts in writers which may compel him to write a story afterwards. What goes on behind the scenes in the mind of an author? There is a hint of serious thinking and compels the reader to agree with Mr. Bond, and lose himself in his world.
I wouldn’t suggest it to those who haven’t read even one of Bond’s works, or didn’t like the way Mr. Bond writes. This work is a kind of ‘further study’ for those who have read his stories and other works.
Who should read it for sure? People like me, or Mr. Bond himself, who realize the value of other people’s dreams also. Those of us who are ready to take an hour off from our busy schedules and remember what it feels to be like to become a boy again,to sense the rain, nature,bird behaviour during rains, animal bahaviour, and go mock hunting in the jungles of our back yard.How mists in rain cover the hill-tops,how nature silently witnesses and welcomes the first snow.He weaves stories around a tree that appears like a ghost in the mist and rain. Folk lures of ghost stories- each tree has its own ghost!
It is not even required to read his previous works if you are ready to experiment, open to new ideas, and don’t necessarily want sensationalism in literary works.
I am pretty sure it will change the way you read, and perceive life.
Read and be enriched, be wiser by the day, with information of the monsoon, widen your horizon in every way!!!!
The book traces his path back to India, and how he doesn’t need to justify his love for this country. The writing once again is simple, elegant and nudges us towards taking some time off from our busy lives and to know the simple people of the hills.
The journal starts with a witty prologue, with Bond telling how he came to put together this book and some anecdotes about his work life before he started writing full time. Bond carefully describes the advent and origin of the pieces written here, with the same reminiscent nostalgic air found in all his works.
‘Bells in the hills. A school-bell ringing, and children’s voices drifting through an open window. A temple bell heard faintly from across the valley. Heavy silver ankle bells on the feet of sturdy hill women. Sheep bells heard high up on the mountainside.’
After which the book is divided in 5 sections, each section denoting the end of a decade, and the change and constancy in Mr. Bonds thinking and living. Every section is interspersed with bits and pieces of stories, essays, and poems. All of them memoirs of a romantic in a true sense.
Why should you go for this book? If you have read even one of Bonds works, then you must have realized the magical quality and simplicity in his words. This work is not exactly a work of fiction, but a compilation of thoughts in writers which may compel him to write a story afterwards. What goes on behind the scenes in the mind of an author? There is a hint of serious thinking and compels the reader to agree with Mr. Bond, and lose himself in his world.
I wouldn’t suggest it to those who haven’t read even one of Bond’s works, or didn’t like the way Mr. Bond writes. This work is a kind of ‘further study’ for those who have read his stories and other works.
Who should read it for sure? People like me, or Mr. Bond himself, who realize the value of other people’s dreams also. Those of us who are ready to take an hour off from our busy schedules and remember what it feels to be like to become a boy again,to sense the rain, nature,bird behaviour during rains, animal bahaviour, and go mock hunting in the jungles of our back yard.How mists in rain cover the hill-tops,how nature silently witnesses and welcomes the first snow.He weaves stories around a tree that appears like a ghost in the mist and rain. Folk lures of ghost stories- each tree has its own ghost!
It is not even required to read his previous works if you are ready to experiment, open to new ideas, and don’t necessarily want sensationalism in literary works.
I am pretty sure it will change the way you read, and perceive life.
Read and be enriched, be wiser by the day, with information of the monsoon, widen your horizon in every way!!!!
Bible MeteorologyBible Meteorology is a book written by Dr. R.R. Kelkar, former director-general of IMD, New Delhi. The book revolves around the current precepts of the science of meteorology and what the Bible has said about the weather, and to show that they are not in conflict. The book has been divided into sixteen short chapters, which are related but make sense independently. They need not necessarily be read in sequence, but in any preferred order. The book is available free of cost as an e-book.
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It'll be a normal monsoon this year, forecasts Met Dept.
The Times of India - April 20, 2011
NEW DELHI: The country is expected to receive normal monsoon this year. The meteorological department's
first monsoon forecast for the season, made on Tuesday, has raised hopes of sustained agriculture growth and economic expansion this fiscal year.
The Met department expects 98% of average rainfall during this year's monsoon season, which is well within the normal range. It said there is "very low probability'' of rains being deficient (below 90% of the long period average) or excess (above 110%). If the prediction holds, the country will have normal monsoon rains for the second year running, after a shortfall of 21% in 2009. Making the announcement, minister of earth sciences, P K Bansal said the monsoon is expected to arrive on time”June 1st in Kerala. The forecast, however, comes with several caveats and uncertainties.
Grow wide like the rainbow, gaining knowledge from around the globe , its understanding will make your senses glow !
first monsoon forecast for the season, made on Tuesday, has raised hopes of sustained agriculture growth and economic expansion this fiscal year.
The Met department expects 98% of average rainfall during this year's monsoon season, which is well within the normal range. It said there is "very low probability'' of rains being deficient (below 90% of the long period average) or excess (above 110%). If the prediction holds, the country will have normal monsoon rains for the second year running, after a shortfall of 21% in 2009. Making the announcement, minister of earth sciences, P K Bansal said the monsoon is expected to arrive on time”June 1st in Kerala. The forecast, however, comes with several caveats and uncertainties.
Grow wide like the rainbow, gaining knowledge from around the globe , its understanding will make your senses glow !
Background Music( Only Monsoon magic): Ustad Amjad Ali Khan on Sarod