Author - Jui Purohit.

  As the harsh winters end and mustard flowers bloom, our life sees no tough time nor any gloom....that's spring for us! In previous parts of this series I wrote about what spring means to me. But being an Indian there's a different meaning to this season. As I said earlier, spring isn't romanticised as much in India. Speaking of spring in movies or dramas, apart from spring blossom mentions in few romantic songs like "Gulmohor gar tumhara naam hota" and "Rajnigandha ful tumhe", there's not much romance around spring. The reason for which might be that spring in India known as Basant is related to harvest. India being primarily an agricultural country, farms are more of source of income as opposed to just running through fields singing songs. A Tujhe dekha to yeh jana sanam is surely a hit, in the mustard field, but the farmer gives his efforts and his yeild, more importance than a mere bollywood appearance. As they say, Way to man's heart is thr...

  Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that it is! ~ Jessica Harrelson. When the guitar strings are struck, when the birds chirp, when the camellias bloom, when the sun's rays warm the surroundings and when you ain't feeling sad anymore....that's when you know Spring is here! Love and Spring are as compatible as coffee and vanilla! So these dramas cash in on the pathways, laterals covered with cherry blossom, camellia trees. The roads masked with the petals of these blooms. The main leads walking over it, hand in hand, promising to be together for eternity. As cliche as it sounds, but the vibe does struck a chord in your heart, makes you long for such a companion or if you have one, makes you fall in love with him again! The heroine says If you stretch your hand out in the drizzle of falling petals and a petal lands on your hand, the person you are with at that instance stays with you forever. The hero stretches his hand out and a petal sways with the wind to land on ...

  You can cut all flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming! ~ Pablo Neruda I am a fan of Korean, Chinese, Japanese dramas. And the real meaning of the word Spring was introduced to me through these dramas. In India, we don't actually get to see Spring as a season separately. We don't have those appealing cherry blossoms, tulips, hyacinths, alluims etc... Yes, we do have gulmohars, bahawa, palaash, jarul....But then I guess spring in India isn't romanticised to a magnitude as it is in other countries. When you see those cherry blossoms, of white and pink, the petals swirling with the wind and elegantly descending to the ground....you know instantly that the unrequited love is going to find its way....way right through the bed of those soft pink, fallen corolla. Spring literally means to spring up. The flowers, plants, new beginnings...all of these opening up, bursting up, blossoming up, is Spring! As it's rightly said - It's a lovely reminder of how beautiful c...