Janmashtami arrives today with the scent of wet earth and Mumbai’s monsoon soundtrack—raindrops, honks, and the occasional tree branch crashing down. The dark skies feel like nature’s own design for a festival that honours this divine birth on another stormy night, over 5,000 years ago, in a world not much calmer than ours.

Back then, the Vrishni kingdom was suffering under King Kamsa, a cruel tyrant. After overthrowing his own father, he imprisoned his sister Devaki and her husband Vasudeva when told her eighth child would bring his end. He killed her newborns one by one, but destiny has its own........

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