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কালবৈশাখী: Kolkata Kalboishakhi, watching after 12 years

4 Apr 2021 · 4 min

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This content was created by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This content was uploaded by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This is a YouTube video titled "কালবৈশাখী: Kolkata Kalboishakhi, watching after 12 years" (uploaded April 4, 2021). The excerpt is an on-location, informal narration by two participants (labelled SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) in Kolkata watching and describing a Kalboishakhi storm — noting rain, lightning, thunder, orange skies, drops on the ground, camera/light adjustments and background noise from an election campaign mic. The speakers mostly speak in English with occasional Bengali/Hindi interjections; the clip is a personal/observational recording of the seasonal storm after about 12 years.

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Hey guys, so I'm still in Kolkata. Okay, just last two days, and I have I'm fortunate enough to witness Kolkata Kalbusha Ki Jhor, which is which I'm witnessing almost after twelve years. So there's nothing else I can say.
Let's watch Jhor coming. There's a mic with election campaign.
Going on, please ignore it. Just watch the skies.
Okay. I don't know whether you can see.
Obviously, you cannot see. It's very dark. But I'll put on the light. See. Okay. The look at the drops of rains that are falling on the ground. The drops start becoming bigger and bigger.
And the sky has become turned really orange.
Raindrops falling on my head a lot. I would like you to watch the skies, the lightning and the thunder. Okay, now it is full-fledged rain.
You can hear the rain, right? I'll come out for you.
बारिश। I'm sure those who are living away from Calcutta and haven't come to Calcutta for a very long time, you could enjoy this rainfall and the pitter-patter of the rains. It's not raining that hard that I could get drenched.