A Monthly Newsletter on Art & Culture Persephone by Pouls.of.art June 2026
This Month's Theme

Depiction of Monsoons & Natural Calamities in Art

Barso Re Megha — Indian cinema
Cinema & Aesthetics

Barso Re Megha: Monsoons, Music and the Quintessential 2000s Aesthetics of Indian Cinema

By Hemleena

Monsoons possess a rare phenomenon of merging different emotions and elements together and this is perhaps why Bollywood keeps visiting this archetype again and again.

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Cozy rain aesthetics
Disaster & Beauty

The Aestheticization of Disaster — the "Beautiful Rain"

By Ritika

What gets called a "romantic" season is, for a significant portion of the population, a season of loss. Romance, then, is not a natural response to rain. It is a class position, one that has learned to present itself as a universal feeling.

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa — Hokusai
Nature & Creation

The Monsoon Paradox: Destruction as Creation

By Ashmita

Even the slightest excess of rain can devastate communities that have lived in one place for generations, affecting people, flora, and fauna alike. In doing so, it creates a simple binary in our minds: rain that nurtures and rain that destroys.

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Rainy city photography
Internet & Culture

Why Rain Hits Different on the Internet

By Prakriti

The internet has somehow been able to take the most beautiful part of a season and amplify its effect, turning it into commercially produced content. But the season itself, can be described as nothing but inconvenience and a sensory nightmare.

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Bollywood monsoon character alter-egos
LISTICLE & POP-CULTURE

Monsoon Darlings: Which One Are You?

By Ashmita

Seven kinds of people, one season of rain. Find your Bollywood alter ego below! No judgment if you're a little bit of all seven.

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This Month's Playlist
Romanticising Monsoon playlist

Spotify Playlist

Romanticising Monsoon

A special soundtrack for our readers, curated by the editorial team

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Persephone by Pouls.of.art June 2026 · Art, Literature, History & Culture

1 comment

So delightful! Loved going through this. The playlist is really good and has some of my favourites!

Kripa •

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