Chitapata chinkulu

This is the story of my friend

She'd always go out for a walk along with her friends in the evening. It was always refreshing to go out after a day of lectures and tutorials.

It almost had become a routine. The tutorial would end roughly at around 5:15 pm and they would all go out for a pleasant walk only to return hungry!

It was one of those evenings and the place being a hill station, a sudden light downpour was not so uncommon. Oh, how she loved rains! It always gave her a feeling of nature touching her, washing off her worries, gifting her a momentary joy of being lost, a feeling of rain purifying her... how could she not jump with joy on seeing little droplets land on her face?

One of the students suggested her to open her umbrella for there was a risk of catching cold. She told him that she loves rains and its okay. Anyways, it was just drizzling and they had almost reached the IIA campus!

Addu cheppade, Umbrella epudu
O vana, nuvvu vostanante...
[Translation: Umbrella never acts as a barrier if rain wants to seep in right through...]

Chitapata Chinkulu!
[Translation: Little raindrops!]

Maybe it was another of those days when it had started drizzling when they'd almost reached the campus. She decided to go to room first and then go for dinner. Suddenly it started raining hard! Oh, what fun it was, she got fully drenched outside her guest house and oh! what a feeling.

But alas! It was Kodaikanal and it was cold! I wasnt able to stop myself from shivering hard and clattering my teeth involutarily, the whole dinner time that day!

Yea! Chitapata Chinkulu!

Shruti