Kanyakumari & Co.'s marathon musical effort brings rain to Chennai?

Noted violinist A. Kanyakumari, with a team of Ninety women artistes, performed a 12-hour musical recital at Chennai's Kapaleeshwarar Temple on Saturday, December 20. Their cause: praying for rains. Click Here to read a news item about the performance featured in The Hindu.

Less than a week before this musical effort, a depression in the Bay of Bengal had promised to bring lots of rains to Chennai--at least, according to the Met department and the very dark clouds. But, as is quite usual, the actual rains landed up in Andhra, dashing the hopes of people in Chennai.

Quite fascinatingly, a couple of days after Kanyakumari & Co.'s marathon effort, it rained in Chennai--without any forewarnings! Tuesday and Wednesday saw some very decent rains--by Chennai standards. However, on Wednesday evening--once the Met department woke up and announced that the rains would last for another 2 days--the rains promptly stopped.

It looks like a case of Kanyakumari proposes and the Met department disposes.