God given?

After a long period of drought, the rains have finally arrived in Karnataka and are slowly intensifying. Their arrival is noteworthy not because they are propitious for a state that has suffered two consecutive years of drought but because of the timing. The rains arrived soon after the state government managed to convince the Centre of the need for financial support to neutralise the impact of drought. As a state official joked, perhaps those in power managed to convince the rain gods to stay away long enough for the Centre to loosen its purse strings.