The mango season is ending – thank goodness!
This year, our mango orchard turns five, and we harvested close to 500 fruit over about two and a half months. The first few batches, which included windfalls, hailfalls, elephant […]
Garden bench
I’m lucky my daughters are such positive people. Once in a while, when I get to thinking nothing works, they’ll show up and yank me out of it. This week […]
Old stones: Dhwaja sthambha of a lost and forgotten temple
I have been admiring and wondering about this pair of old stones for a long time now. Why are they sticking out into the sky in the middle of nowhere? […]
A beautiful day, and a writerly exercise
Today has been a glorious day, the sort of day when you’re grateful to be alive. I took a dozen photos, but then I thought: if I call myself a […]
The congress walk
Ha! I meant congress grass, all you political types! Congress-with-a-capital-C may bring its own troubles, but this congress grass, aka Parthenium hysterophorus, is fast becoming the bane of my life. […]
To moong and ragi, siblings in a field
There was a hasty woman Who ploughed some crooked lines And she planted out some ragi And some moong beans looking craggy, And they all grew together in the crooked […]
Shankh pushpi
This is a beautiful creeper with bright, ink-blue, conch-shaped flowers. It is used in several Ayurvedic medicines, being primarily recommended as a brain tonic. However, there is some controversy about […]
