In July 2019, amidst a severe drought in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, local priests organized a traditional Hindu ritual called Bhekuli Biya—a symbolic marriage of two frogs—to appease Indra, the Hindu rain god. The bride and groom frogs were dressed, adorned with vermilion and tied with a red thread, as the priests chanted mantras hoping to summon the monsoon rains.
Miraculously—or perhaps ominously—rains arrived. But they didn’t just arrive; they arrived in torrents. Within weeks, hundreds of millimeters of rainfall slammed the region, flooding homes and damaging over
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