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Friends

12/09/2022by thelongview 9 Comments

Well met Upon a lily leaf, We chew the fat together. Until one day We’ll take wing, flit, float, soar, dip, and sip nectar.

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Animals, Nature, Poem

And then there were the bactrians

08/01/2022by thelongview 20 Comments

To continue from my last post about camels… On a trip to Ladakh in 2009, my heart’s desire for more camels was fulfilled. (Though never satiated!) Nubra valley is the […]

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Animals, Camels, Travel

Camel days

07/01/2022by thelongview 22 Comments

These days, my head is full of elephants, but there was a time when I was obsessed with camels. That was back in the 80s, when Srini and I were […]

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Camels, Gujarat

Discouraged by pigs, encouraged by tubers

22/10/2021by thelongview 17 Comments

Yesterday was a pig day at the farm. The wild pigs got into the fenced groundnut field — the precious no-till experiment — and had themselves a feast. Meanwhile, the […]

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Animals, Natural farming, No-till, Sesbania grandiflora - agathi, Trees

Sadness and uncertainty

13/09/2020by thelongview 13 Comments

It’s months since I posted anything. And some of you have kindly been asking what happened. Two things happened, almost simultaneously. Covid and the lockdown, and the disappearance of our […]

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Animals, Humanity, India

Grass: evil or amoral?

12/02/2020by thelongview 8 Comments

Grass probably beats cockroaches in adaptability and survival skills. It’s everywhere, growing fast! So, our neighbour Chitra and I had this discussion, and were pleased to find ourselves in agreement. […]

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Animals, Grass, Natural farming, Nature

Hum ek hain

31/01/2020by thelongview 2 Comments

This is old news now, but I’ve had no time to post. In my recent Bangalore stint (or shall I say stink, both are equally appropriate), I got mixed up […]

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Animals, City life, Humanity, Life lessons

A colloquium of colocasias

05/12/2019by thelongview 3 Comments

We harvested a bed of colocasia (shepankizhangu/ arbi/ taro) today. I love this tuber vegetable, and its leaves too, that you can make into delicious patrode, west-coast style.But the best […]

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Animals, Natural farming, Vegetables

It’s raining mangoes!

15/05/2019by thelongview 9 Comments

The mangoes are still growing, they’re not yet ready to pick. These are windfalls. Most of our 22 mango trees are supposed to be Banganapalli, but we suspect they have […]

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Animals, Mango, Natural farming, Nature, Rain, Trees

Hoffable herralumps

13/04/2019by thelongview 9 Comments

I don’t have the heart to blame an animal for anything it does. So, elephants, you are not only forgiven, but sympathised with. Drought, fires, loss of habitat – what […]

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Animals, Elephants, Farming, Trees

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