Mighty Monsoons

In parts of India, this month is the start of the monsoon, an annual season of rain that's heralded by the call of the peacock.

Indian climatic conditions vary from a wide range of weather conditions across its geographic area. It is also one of the main reason to say its a difficult task to generalise the climate.
From the arid zones in the western parts to the glaciers in the north, and the humid regions in tropical side of south west.

July is the month of monsoon and October to December mainly called rainy season.Late in May the first signs of the monsoon are visible in some areas - high humidity, electrical storms, short rainstorms and dust storms that turn day into night. The hot season is the time to abandon the plains and head for the cooler hills, and this is when hill stations are at their best (and busiest).

A monsoon is a term from early Arabs called the Mausin or the season of winds. Those cold breezes welcomes the visitors to hillstations. This was in reference to the seasonally shifting winds in the Indian Ocean and surrounding regions, including the Arabian Sea.

These winds blow from the southwest during one half of the year and from the northeast during the other. There are seasonal changes which are particularly noticed as northeast winds prevailing in the winter in the Southeast Asia and southwest winds in the summer.
Monsoons will occur in other parts of the world like Australia and in the Southwest portions of the United States.

Now as monsoons have become better understood, the definition now indicates climatic systems anywhere in which the moisture increases dramatically in the warm season. The Asian monsoon, which affects the Indian subcontinent and southeast part of the continent, is probably the most noted of the monsoons.

Travel space :: A Traveller - Much to explore in this world

Years passed by, its been a lot of traveling, exploring various places in Hindustan. Its all the same courtesy, love, affection, admiration shown by the people in various places but in a different way.. the way which they learnt by living in those surroundings. Lush greens, huge mountain ranges, amazing water falls, deep valleys, awesome back waters, sand beaches, rock patches, beautiful rivers, deep lakes, thick forests, ancient forts, tombs, monuments etc., are some of the lovely places to visit in India. Its a complete travel package for tourists like me -:).

Always its been my excitement which makes me travel. Indian railways made my dreams come true most of the times. As said by someone, a true Traveler is the one who doesn't plan his way back. I believe that it is true since, the moment you plan your way back, you think of the scheduled departure of your train/flight/any other transport. You should never think of how to get back to your place, which will save your time rather than thinking how to reach your sweet home again. I think I was successful enough in exploring the exciting destinations in India, most of the credit goes to the above mentioned saying.

Let me share various experiences I came across in India. In South Indian people mainly term you as "anna"(big bro), "thambi"(smaller one) and women as "madam" neverthless they dont term them as "akka"(sister) -;). Rest of India, they mainly term you as "saab", "bhayya", "SirJee" You find rice as main intake in South India &Orissa. Roti sabzi is main intake in rest of India. Sambar especially in Tamilnadu, food cooked with coconut oil in Kerela.. etc. Coming to various lingos used by people, except for Tamilnadu, everywhere you can speak in Hindi English. In TN, even people know and understand Hindi, it would be difficult for you to get someone who responds to you. We cant blame them as that is how they were brought up. Most of the destinations in South India are Pilgrim centres and they do draw the attention of many people around the world. Hill stations reside in Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats. The exciting part of travelling is when you actually board toy trains in Hill stations such as Ooty, Shimla, Matheran etc,. Most of my traveling was in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, me being from Hyderabad and currently working in Pune. You can see similar courtesy from the people in both these places, languages being different.