Mumbai’s romance with rains is not new. Unlike the rest of India, the city literally celebrates the arrival of monsoon and embraces its existence with open arms. Tea and some piping hot pakodas are all you need to enjoy the earthy smell of the first monsoon rains. For a moment people leave aside their worries of potholes filled with muddy water, delay of local trains and all the troubles they would face commuting in rains. They just enjoy the pure beauty of thundering monsoon, showering its love over the city of dreams.
The megacity recorded its first pre-monsoon shower on Friday and that too almost two weeks before the last year pre-monsoon shower which hit the city on 25 May 2016. And the Twitterati was more than excited. Here is how people shared their wit and excitement about #MumbaiRains.
I was covering an event, and all I covered is this. #MumbaiRains pic.twitter.com/eDtER6gNGr
— Bhushan Kadam (@_bhushankadam) May 12, 2017
Wish this rain would have happened a couple of days back. At the Justin Bieber concert. No hard feelings. Just. For. Fun. Hehe #mumbairains
— Mayur Pawar (@connar101) May 12, 2017
Beautiful smell of earth with little shower this evening keeping us wanting for More in @wearenavimumbai #MumbaiRains pic.twitter.com/y1TFwUISMe
— Digital Gurl 🙂 (@Sing_Suman) May 12, 2017
It's raining and lightening in Mumbai. NOW, in the month of May…it's gonna get much hotter! #MumbaiRains
— Sonica (@RaptObserver) May 12, 2017
Getting wet after ages!! #MumbaiRains
— Twisted Reality (@Away_Label_Not) May 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/lasamendes/status/863053325364809728
Touching her soft lips, it gently touched d ground n filled d air with d sweet smell of d earth.#Mumbai , u reignited love.#mumbairains
— Meera (@MeeraSays_) May 12, 2017
Heavy duty lightening in Andheri.
Chalo sab #MumbaiRains hashtag use karo.
— The Potpourri Girl (@TaariniNB) May 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/ad_singh/status/863043539705397252
#MumbaiRains
Time has come for #bmc to dig up manholes. Roads to get jammed. And me to tell in one of those.— lamas rdek (@Imkedr) May 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/krishnabhatt111/status/863115251419553792
Woah.. Looks like #JustinBieberconcert made god really happy! #MumbaiRains
— Aishwarya Mishra (@aishwaryamishra) May 12, 2017
Its Raining …Welcome Monsoon…#MumbaiRains pic.twitter.com/g3MQwsI7eT
— PathikVModi (@pathik_007rules) May 12, 2017