Monsoon Is India's Hygge (We Just Never Called It That)

A few years ago, the world discovered a Danish word Hygge - and decided it explained why Scandinavians seemed so unreasonably content despite five months of darkness every year. Candles, soft blankets, a slower pace, the deliberate choice to stay in and feel good about it. It became a whole design movement, a publishing genre, eventually a hashtag.

Here's something we have been thinking about, India has been doing its own version of this for centuries. We just never gave it a name, a Pinterest board, or a Scandinavian accent. We call it Sukoon - a deep, unhurried kind of peace, the feeling of finally exhaling. And there's no season that hands it to you more generously, or more often, than the monsoon. Barsaat , Saawan, Baarish our very own Hygge season dedicated to rains.

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