Reblogged from When Worlds Collide, by Nalaka Gunawardene:
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 27 May 2012
For the past few days, while enduring Colombo’s heat and high humidity, I’ve been hoping for a timely monsoon.
A billion and a half fellow South Asians joined me in this waiting and guessing game for the mighty rain-carrying oceanic winds -- one of the great forces of nature on this planet.