New clothes
I remember a time when new clothes were bought three times a year: in the summer holidays, for Deepavali and on birthdays. Readymade was unheard of then. My mother used […]
I remember a time when new clothes were bought three times a year: in the summer holidays, for Deepavali and on birthdays. Readymade was unheard of then. My mother used […]
I have spent the last few days brewing a terrific stink! Usually Anilodharani is the sweetest smelling place. We have champaka, roses, jasmine – wild and domestic, angelonia, tithonia, water […]
If you’re lucky enough to have a chikoo/sapota tree in your garden, the witching hour is at hand! I see chikoos in the market almost all the year round, and […]
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 […]
If your dog badly needs this, run out right now and locate a palash tree! The flowering season is almost over for this year, and the flowers are ready to […]
We finally managed to grow some cauliflowers! They are tiny, but good looking. And after many attempts and many doomed seeds and cuttings, we now have four fine agathi trees […]
Red moon rising… And here is the year’s first palash, a splash of orange in the dry February landscape. The leaves of this tree, stitched together, make lovely, biodegradable disposable […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some time back our friend Gopakumar, who is full of wild lore, told us about the Jalari tree (shorea roxburghii), which flowers in our local forest around Shiva Ratri. I […]