The Rainy Season-English Essay, Paragraph, Speech for Class 9, 10, 11 and 12 Students

The Rainy Season

Broadly speaking, there are four seasons in a year-summer, rainy, winter, and autumn. Summer season means hot months. The rainy season brings rains after the heat of the summer. Then comes the winter season of cold months. It is followed by autumn when leaves of the trees fall off and replace them with new ones. While people in the cities do not like the rainy season, it is very important for the agriculturists. While in cities it brings relief from the heat of the summer, for the peasants and agriculturists it is a blessing as their crops depend upon it. People in the cities do not like it but for agriculturists living in villages, it is a harbinger, messenger of rain with a ray of hope for better crops.

The rainy season is a mixed blessing. If the rains are sufficient, it means good crops and abundance of production of foodstuff, plenty of fodder for cattle and increased quantity of milk for the nation. There is greenery all round. And arid and dry lands are covered with green grass. There is no dearth of water for irrigation purposes. The ponds, lakes, rivers, etc., are full of water. Rivers are full of fish. Bengalis are happy as they eat fish. So, in addition to giving relief from the heat of the summer, the rainy season, contributes to a great extent to the solution of food problem.

In India, people enjoy the season very much. They organise picnics in this season. They go to some orchard where they get plenty of mangoes. They also arrange for milk. They take these two things there to their hearts’ content, and feel strong by taking this nourishing combination. Children enjoy themselves by floating paper boats and splashing water on one another. They feel fresh after a dip (bath) in rainwater. Women have their own way of enjoying this season. They gather at a place and enjoy a swing to the accompaniment of songs from folklore. In the background of greenery, while it is drizzling, their songs have a charm of their own and their happiness and joy knows no bound.

But the rainy season sometimes presents a very horrible picture. A night, when we hear the thundering of clouds and flashing of lightning and thick dark clouds cover the sky, we shudder. When it comes to torrents or heavy downpour, it is so threatening that one feels as if doomsday has come. The floods become common phenomenon in different parts of the country. Heavy damage is caused to the crops and the lives of animals and men. Houses collapse taking away many lives of the inmates-men, women and children. Crops are destroyed. Traffic is disturbed. Telephone communication is cut off. No link is possible from one part to the other. Owing to the heavy damage and destruction caused to crops, curse this season. the country comes on the verge of food shortage, and the people

So, the rainy season, which is a blessing by providing a great relief to the people troubled by the heat of summer, sometimes is changed into a curse for some people as much as it causes destruction and a number of poisonous insects are born in large numbers turning life to hell. Even for the students this season is not congenial for their studies.

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