Fifty shades of grey

On cloudless days a choir of birds musically announces dawn while a riot of bright colours dapples the sky. On cloudy rainy days, the deep velvety early hours of the morning are engulfed by 50 shades of grey.

This ashen hue is a staple of painters etching a monsoon scene. Blacks, blues and grey shades smear the white palette and artistically adorn the white drawing sheet. Black umbrellas mushroom up in these portraits while grimy clouds of various depths overhang the sky.

A common Bengali realistic portrayal of a rainy day is of a black crow getting drenched in a heavy shower atop the green wooden window of an old-fashioned Bengali house. In earlier pictures, these carrion birds were shown as seated in see-saw motion on black rusted antennas.  Then dish antennas came into being changing the rooftops, skylines and high perches of these feathered friends forever.

 Crows love water but have waterproof feathers. I often see them dripping in the rain. Today, one of them swooped down and picked up a slice of bread from the pavement grey. This conventional brooding colour brightens my mood.

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