Greetings to all my young geographer-friends (and not-so-young readers, too)! You are now in a new academic year. Exciting possibilities, new things to learn, new friends to make, and I hope new ways to learn also.
“Rain, rain go away… little Johnny wants to play” is the stupidest rhyme we teach kids in India. Here, we WELCOME rain; we PRAY for rain. There are songs in every language asking rains to come on time. When the rains arrive, we rejoice by going out and playing in the rain!The monsoons have officially…