Going for the delay factor is all too common for the ordinary citizens of the country. It’s always one or the other missing element in the jigsaw puzzle that delays the final picture from emerging within the schedule chalked out as a relief measure. Maybe we have become rather tough skinned to go out of our minds just because of a delay of a few weeks, or even months. The delay in getting a filled to the brim cabinet is taking its toll yet it is a reflection of the usual rather than the exception. The people have become habituated to witnessing delays in so many issues of national importance that they seem to have no qualms for yet another one in the pipeline.

The human generated delays may have their repercussions, but when even nature conspires by delaying the onset of monsoon then things are really going too far. Everyone is now witness to the scorching sun day in and day out without the rain carrying clouds to burst into the scene. If political events have been heated, the farmlands are also parched and cannot deliver the morsels. Agricuture aside, even politics, ironically, seems to be guided by the weather pattern.