A LOVELY DAY LT COL NOEL ELLIS 17/X/2023 What a start to our day it was! Loud thunder woke us up. Till yesterday the sky was crisp, blue, and clear. We must be hallucinating, I thought. As I walked out of the door while dawn broke, it made me shiver. The air was nippy, as if we were in Mussoorie. It was dark, unlike the time of the day. It was then I noticed the ‘Kali Ghata’ hovering over our colony. It took me a little while to absorb the change in weather. It was a sure sign of approaching winters. One shower which the clouds were threatening to, mornings and evenings would get chilly. The unexpected rain clouds in this month were harbingers of cold, is my experience of the desert. It would be pleasant for days to come till winters arrive in real earnest. An unusual heavy sound of aircrafts flying overhead caught my attention. It was unlike one routinely hears. Civil flights do go around our colony before landing once in a while. This sound was diffe...