fortunefaded,

 that was a nice story. it reminded my earlier days. we also used to say rani to red one and mantri to the one that was describe above. the green with thin tail which fly preety high and looks furious. but the way we used to catch those dragon flies were kind of diffrent than yours. we used to catch the tail.

 in terai during summer most of people suffer from "ghamaura" we use nycil powder on them. i forget the name in english for that "ghamaura" . i am tired to google it.we used those dragonflies to bite our ghamaura  and it was fun the pain was different but it was fun.

thanks bro you remind me my those days.