Munificent monsoon

It’s been a good monsoon this year. Despite a tail-end splash of excessive rainfall, with consequent flooding in Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and eastern Uttar Pradesh, and anxiety in the early weeks of low rainfall, by and large this year’s south-west monsoon, which has now started to retreat, has been benign and benevolent. The country has recorded a rainfall of four per cent above normal.

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