The hero is all alone in his Dak Banglow. He is very young, just a little above the age of boyhood. It is the monsoon season at a very remote village. He hardly has any work. He is all alone. It keeps raining heavily most of the time because the place is in Bengal. There is an orphan girl to help him in his odd jobs. She helps him in cooking, preparing his bath, making Chapatis and even preparing his smoking pipe. Once when he had fever she pressed his forehead and tended him very delicately in a way that is typical of a loving and caring girl. He tells the stories of his family to her and she tells about her parents although she is an orphan now. But despite the long rainy season and such conducive environment, they had no physical relationship. The boy seeks transfer to his hometown. Upon rejection of his application he resigns. He parts away leaving the girl emotionally pregnant. She weeps and sobs upon separating from her hero whereas the hero consoles himself for the emotional pain inflicted uoon the heroine by musing that partings and meetings keep taking place even in the nature. The river meets the sea, day meets the night etc. Similarly the river departs from the mountains, distributaries part away from the river, so on and so forth. Thus it is natural for humans also to keep meeting and parting.
The above is the theme of the story 'The postmaster' witten by Rabinder Nath Tagore about a century ago. We note that the hero had an amazingly sound character.
Now let us move half a century forward. There was a movie called Aradhna sometime in the early seventies. The hero gets just one monsoon night to spend with the heroine per chance of fate. He is aware that he can err. He sings, "Bhool koi hamse naa ho jaye (may I not make a mistake)." But he definitely makes a mistake and impregnates the heroine physically in the real sense of the word.
Moving a few decades still further to the present times, we observe a sea change in the affairs. A boy and a girl do not need any solitude of any type during rainy season along with the thunder of the clouds and lightening in the sky flashing in the back ground etc. One good mobile phone with internet connectivity is sufficient for ninety percent of the intercourse to take place. That too without any hassle of impregnation of any sort.
.jpg)