It was an evening worth remembering when heavy rainfall washed away all the woes of blistering summer.
My son was in the cricket coaching when it started raining cats and dogs. I went to pick him up and on the way back saw the magic created by the rain in the light of vehicles.
Fortunately I had my DSLR with me. I did not waste even a single second clicking some life on the road soaked in the heavy but pleasant rain, while my son watched the action sitting in the back seat of the car.
This story has pictures clicked by me, Vipul Gupta, while the narration is produced by my talented student Architta.
In the dead of the night I stand guard, I see. Shakespeare introduced 7 Stages of Life and I, I’ll introduce the volatility of “Human mind”. It rests in the state of ‘Void’, and people walk as if they’re dead from inside.
Provide an external stimulus and you can see the second stage set in. Bogged down by numerous hitches, they get mired in ‘Panic’; anxious to get to their homes fast, they forget to enjoy the rain while it lasts. “Silly humans”, I think to myself.
After a while rain appeals to their inner mind, and their frisky heart takes them out to the road in a playful endeavour but with their uptight mind as ‘Cautious’ as ever. I wonder why they cage themselves so much, why they don’t want to feel the rain's touch.
As I stand there pondering, I see some people enjoying and it is then that I realise that the fourth stage of ‘Happiness’ has finally arrived. “These fools have finally understood”, I chuckled and smiled but little did I know that this was ephemeral, meant only to last a while.
‘Void’ brings out its deadpan face again and the cycle of monotony starts all over again. I stand witness to this play of moods, unmoved by happiness or sadness, by rain or by sun. I observe, I see. After all, it’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

Architta Tayal

Architta Tayal is a final year B.Tech. student and our Basic photography batch alumni. She is a vivid writer. She found this combination of clicking an interesting picture, and then writing a poem on it, very exciting. See the result.


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