Monsoon returns… finally
Published November 12, 2009 | 
Monsoon Rains fall in Ernakulam
Cochin streets, like all Indian streets are always filled with humanity… except when the rains fall. October and November are generally the time for the returning monsoon. Well they finally hit yesterday with a vengeance. Hopefully the rains will fill the backwaters and clear the Cochin canals of their human detritus and the carpets of hyacinths.
The rains may clear the streets, but will they will clear the canals and worse will be the waterlogged lots (aka paddy fields according to the agriculturalist lobby) which lie empty except for a burgeoning mosquito population which will start swarming in a week or two.
Not everybody is unhappy: just listen to the frogs after the rain singing of coming fecundity. Hopefully their tadpoles will eat some of the mosquito larvae in the coming days.
