Name: When Peacocks Dance
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Author: Juhi Sinha

English399About the BookWho can suppress excitement at the first sighting of looming monsoon clouds? Who can deny the joyful prospect of relief from unrelenting heat of an Indian summer? The season draws every corner of our vast, diverse country together of what we call it, how we deal with it or where we live, we all understand the monsoon.In this anthology, Juhi Sinha celebrates the monsoon with monsoon recipes and festivals from different parts of the country, and fiction and poetry both modern and historical. With Khushwant Singh,Ruskin Bond and Rabindranath Tagore, the Meghaduta, the Ramayana and the Rig Veda, and, of course Alexander Frater, this book is the perfect medley to bring the rains alive any time and anywhere.About the AuthorJuhi Sinha written for several newspapers and magazines in India, including the Times of India, Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, Reader’s Digest, Swagat, Femina and Discover India, as a freelance journalist. Her shories have won prizes in international competitions (BBC and the Tom Howard short-short contest, USA). She is also involved with production, scripting and direction of television programmes and films.IntroductionThe build-up to the arrival of the rains has all the elements of high drama. There is the waiting, the anticipation, the feeling that the heat and humidity can no longer be humanly endured. And then there is the imagined delight of that first gust of monsoon winds, laden with the intoxicating fragrance of damp earth, the changing hues of the skies, the welcome darkening of the day and the splatter of the first heavy raindrop.Everything changes with the arrival of the monsoon-land, sky, temperature, colours, fruits, flowers and the very expression on people’s faces as they

When Peacocks Dance Writings on the Monsoon

When Peacocks Dance Writings on the Monsoon

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