Unusual rains lashed - OK, OK, glanced Chennai in the past few days and we both praised and cursed the weather for bringing down temperatures and raking up the muck on the streets respectively. As Chennai plunged into darkness once again... My son, Sam half drenched, rushed in and brushing aside his concerned mother's admonitions at getting wet when it rains (?) grabbed his camera and tripod and preempted my incredulous glance and said, “ Dad, I have never seen so much lightening ..that too at such quick intervals and I am going to the terrace to capture them ” Then he asked her bewildered sister, Rachel: do you want to come too? A quick cut to a back story here: Rachel is his trusted 'apprentice' and 'muse' and it is entirely up to his mood which role she ends up playing. This time, it was very clear apprentice – an euphemism for 'edupudi” Grudgingly though excited, Rachel grabbed her umbrella and before her customary check out in the mirro...