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The reservoirs are full. The fields are a brilliant, impossible green. The peacock—India’s national bird, which dances only when it rains—has performed its courtship one last time. The earth is soft. The air is clean.

The monsoon leaves behind a simple truth: in India, nothing grows without a little madness. You cannot have the mango without the mud. You cannot have the harvest without the flood. And you cannot love this land without learning to dance in the rain. monsoon season india

News channels flash red alerts. Rivers swell beyond their banks, swallowing homes in Bihar and Assam. Landslides bury roads in the Himalayas. In Mumbai, local trains—the city’s blue veins—choke to a stop as water rises past the tracks. A beggar floats his entire worldly possession—a plastic sack—above his head. A shopkeeper wades through waist-deep water to salvage sacks of grain. The same rain that feeds can also drown. And yet, when the clouds finally part in September, and the last retreating monsoon showers bid farewell over the Bay of Bengal, no one forgets what it gave. The reservoirs are full

Mangoes—sweet, golden Alphonsos—disappear from market stalls, replaced by steaming plates of pakoras (fritters) and cups of masala chai spiked with ginger and cardamom. The heat breaks, but the humidity rises. Clothes stick to skin. The air hums with the chorus of frogs and the rhythmic drip-drip from every leaf. The earth is soft