Sabkush Headlines: People Marry Frogs, Pray In Mud For Monsoon In India

Sabkush Headlines: People Marry Frogs, Pray In Mud For Monsoon In IndiaPeople Marry Frogs, Pray In Mud For Monsoon In India

People in different parts of the country are resorting to off-beat methods to propitiate the rain gods. In Indore, a live man’s funeral was taken out on Wednesday. People in Indore use this method since the princely days when a Maharaja used to rule Indore. In Rajkot, Gujarat, with all the 77 reservoirs in Rajkot circle about to hit rock bottom, a helpless Irrigation Department on Monday chose to seek divine intervention. All employees of the department attended a prayer sessuion organized by the Gayarti Parivar at Bahumali Bhavan on Race Course Road. “There is hardly any rainfall and no fresh inflow. So, the department just decided to seek divine intervention,” said Superintendent Engineer P A Totlani. Sources said special prayers were organised to worship Vayudev since it was the “high velocity wind delayed the monsoon in Gujarat”. “Going by the figures we collect daily from all the dams scattered across seven districts in Saurashtra, the picture is getting gloomier with by the day. Offering prayers is one of the ways to improve things,” said assistant engineer J C Kalaria. Ahmedabad mayor Kanaji Thakore is expected to perform a prajanya-yagna in Madhavpura on Sunday, during which he will sit in a vessel full of water, and pray for rain. Thakore will be joined by scores of citizens who are enduring fasts and making various vows to appease Gods in the hope that monsoon will soon offer relief to the city. Rains have been playing truant, especially in Ahmedabad and the whole of north Gujarat. In Laheripura area of the old city, Muslims and Hindus broke 51 coconuts to propitiate the rain gods. Meteorological Department official Kamaljit Ray said that no rainfall was expected for the next three to four days. If a low pressure develops, city may get rains by July 3 or 4.