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Aura of Anura

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Fresh smell from the first rain Laugh of the child splashing the water Fresh color of the newly grown saplings The land that was lifeless few months back Is giggling with a sign of relief “O rain o rain The life was drain With your tipper-tap on earth I am again freed from the pain”.   What comes to your mind when you think of rain, I asked a herpetologist. Keeping silent for a few seconds his face brighten up with a huge smile and he asked me have you seen a frog? That shocked me for a while and I said who has never seen a frog? Yes I have seen many of them. He laughed and asked, then tell me what they look like...“Sticky”, “slimy”, “weird” , I said. And to this while correcting his sitting posture into a serious discussion, he said then you have never seen them. This point I knew that either I am going to be a part of laugh in his next lecture or I am going to get some serious talk. He asked me what you think of rain and I instantly replied a hot cup of tea with