A Rainy Day

On a rainy day it rains all day long. A rainy day is dull [অলস] and gloomy [বিষণ্ণ]. The sky is overcast [মেঘাচ্ছন্ন] with thick clouds. The sky is not seen. None can go out without an umbrella. Water stands on roads and roads become muddy and slippery. Those who have offices and other business go out with umbrellas over the head, shoes in hand and clothes folded up to knee. Passers-by also move in the same way. Sometimes, people slip and fall on the muddy road. When it rains in torrents [অজস্র], people get drenched [প্লাবিত] and stop midway. The poor suffer much on rainy day. They cannot go out in quest [উদ্দেশ্য] of work and cannot earn their daily food. They pass the day through sufferings. Most of the students do not go to school. Only a few goes to school but they get drenched on the way. So, classes are not held and it is a day of great joy to them. A rainy day brings joyous mood to the young boys of the same age and they are seen to bathe in rainwater with merriment. Other people also stay at home and pass the day without doing anything. People pass the day listening to music, watching TV, reading novels, etc. The cattle keep standing in their sheds and bellow [ষাঁড়়ের ডাক] for fodder [ঘাস]. A rainy day is not pleasant at all for some but then again some like it very much.