First appeared in www.scroll.in on March 7, 2015. The past week saw a massive change in weather patterns across the country, with unseasonal rains bringing a cool breeze to most regions ‒ but wreaking havoc on crops.  This is not quite what the compositions in raags Basant and Bahar and their variants describe about the spring season.  Fortunately, the weather seems to be returning to its earlier pattern in some places, almost signalling that we can enjoy a few more