Now that the winter is at its height, from late evenings to early mornings, there is a rather enjoyable nip in the air. Not only are the usual suspects like Mahabaleshwar and Nasik real cold, almost frosty, but even the Mumbai temperature is hovering around 12! As for 'aple Pune', it is blowing hot and cold! The day is quite hot, while the late evenings and early mornings ARE cold.
To wear or not to wear the woolies is quite a question. If you leave home early, you need the sweater and the shawl, and the types which become quite a burden to bear by 12-ish.
Winter is on the whole the nicest season. It is not hot and bothersome like the summer nor is it messy and leaky like the monsoon. Around this time of the year, good food is available as well, beginning with the refined gulpoli and the yummy tilgul to the rustic hurda.
In addition, any food eaten around this time makes you feel hale-n-hearty, healthy. You feel energized, moreover, to actually exercise. No worries about pounds and inches, in brief.
Everywhere there is a subtle happy, contented feel in the very air. Lovely music programmes by talented artists embellish evenings in winters. Film festivals beckon, sports spoil the spectators with choice in this very season. The greatest pleasure on earth, cosying up with a book and a cuppa of coffee and music playing on the system, is truly enjoyable in this season which has an in-built indolent feel.
Come March, very soon, however, this pleasant cool feel gives way to heat striking us like a heavy stroke, and the April heat waves and hot winds start shaking the darling buds of May! Till then, this transient feel of contented happiness, as rare as in real life, is the best buddy to be forever awaited till returns the next December. Long live the thanda, thanda, cool, cool winter season!
Pratima@ With leaves falling in the late autumn to new nascent foliage blo(ss)oming in late February, the winter season is as varied and lovely as life itself!
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