A Rainy day is very familiar to us. Bangladesh is a land of monsoons and it rains heavily during the rainy season. If rain occur all time in a day, it is called a rainy day.
A Rainy day looks dull and gloomy. The sky remains cloudy. The sun is not seen at all. The continual downpour (cÖPzi e„wócvZ) on a rainy day is, sometimes, punctuated with drizzles (¸wo ¸wo e„wócvZ). With the rain strong winds blow, thunder rolls (eRªcvZ) and crashes and lightning flashes. Birds are hardly seen to fly. Then keep sitting on the branches of trees. Cattle keep standing on their sheds. The streets turn into streams; road become muddy and slippery and the village paths go under water. People have to remain indoors. They cannot move one place to another easily. Pedestrians (c_Pvix) have to move very carefully.
Anyone going out of doors has to use a rain–coat or an umbrella or a protective head-gear. Vehicular traffic splash mud and water’s they pass. Most of the shops cannot be opened and people have to be satisfied with eating what they have in their houses. Boys and girls reach school half- drenched and come back shivering (Kvcv) with a break–up on account of the rainy day. All work remains practically suspended.
On a rainy day the rich do not go out. They enjoy this day. Some people pass time by enjoying TV programs, playing at cards and gossiping, while some people by reading novels other books. Children listen to stories from their dear ones.
Women cook khichuri and they eat to their hearts content.
A Rainy day is a curse to the poor. The laborers and day- wages earners have to suffer a great deal. As they cannot go out to earn their daily bread, they remain unfed (Afz³).
A Rainy day gives us both pleasure and pain. It comes to different classes of people in different ways.
