One of the first hints we can find about gods in Nectar in a Sieve is found in Chapter 3, when Rukmani talks about the difficulties her and her partner, Nathan, have to conceive a child. In her visit to her mother, who is a very spiritual person, Rukmani criticizes the god's willingness to help human beings:
"My mother, whenever I paid her a visit, would make me accompany her to a temple, and together we would pray and pray before the deity, imploring for help until we were giddy. But the Gods have other things to do; they cannot attend to the pleas of every suppliant who dares to raise his cares to heaven. And so the years rolled by and still we had only one child, and that a daughter."
Another example of Rukmani's reference to gods, is found in her description of her youngest son's health condition, as well as her struggling to help him. This can be found in Chapter 16:
"I gazed at the small tired face, soothed by sleep as it had not been for many nights, and even as I puzzled about the change, profound gratitude flooded through me, and it seemed to me that the Gods were not remote, not unheedful, since they had heard his cries and stilled them as if by a miracle."
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Answer: Visible satellite imagery.
Explanation: Visible satellite imagery is an imaging technique used to take satellite images or photographs of the earth which can be interpreted in other to provide information about cloud cover at certain location and season.
In visible satellite imagery interpretation, the ground is colored Grey, water is dark-colored and the cloud exhibits white color. Snow-covered ground during winter are also colored white. Due to the similarity in color exhibited by snow and cloud, a looping picture can be employed as clouds will move while snow covered ground wouldn't.
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