Musing For the Love of Dogs We've injected an overdose of spice into our life. It's like chewing the chilly and loving its taste, even as the thing sears the tongue.
Coffee Planter's Diary The Burden of Being the Owner "Pay the full amount," Anwar says, "start the deductions from Friday." Dharmendra and Harish laugh. "How shall we explain that to the malik?"
Coffee Planter's Diary It's That Time When the Coffee Plants Think They're Dying The plants will lift up, and they will bloom white all at once across the plantation, making these tropical tracts look like they're snowed upon.
Coffee Planter's Diary Lost in the Woods "But why must you be close to nature? The wild must live undisturbed in the wild, and the human must stay put in the city."
Coffee Planter's Diary Coffee Planting: Costa Rican Vs Guatemalan Vs Colombian Kenyan coffee planters, who took to multi-stem farming and returned to the single system, hold empirical proof that multi-stem doesn't work.
Coffee Planter's Diary Dealing With Disaster The crew is doing damage control now, drawing back the Yara from the base of the pepper and pushing it toward the mulch around the cardamom.
Coffee Planter's Diary With Modi in My Dreams, Getting Real About Coffee Birds, peafowl, hare, fox, boar. Trees, plants, and vines. Every rich shade of green. Who in his senses will argue you have caused damage here?
Coffee Planter's Diary Featured Because Coffee and Pepper and Cardamom Must Live Even as they demand the best coffee, buyers want to be assured that God’s creatures are teeming on your property. We have good news for them.
Coffee Planter's Diary You Sow What You Reap. Really? The gods decide if a bean will make it to somebody’s gut or if it will merely rot in the soil that sprouted it.
Bangalore Bruno, Our Beagle (Now Renamed Luca) The yard was full of beagles of varying age; the seniormost was nine months old. The youngest had seen but 40 days. We’d gone there for him.
Bangalore Starbucks On 80-Feet Road Sitting at Starbucks, looking out, I'm pondering the limits and the durability of power.
Musing Maradona, Mortality, and the Crow and the Cat The cat only wishes to perpetuate her species, immortalise it — wants this planet to ever have a cat in it.
Musing A Temple for Kamala Harris? Kamala Harris would need to meet expectations. The actor Khushboo’s temple was torn down by her own fans who’d built the thing only a few years before.
Coffee Planter's Diary Featured Peacock Proliferation, Elephants, Butterflies, and Coffee The peafowl has proliferated, the number of snakes has diminished, the toads are flourishing — all because the foxes have disappeared.
Bangalore Experiencing Wabi-Sabi at The Oberoi, Bangalore I wanted to ask her, looking into her ever-happy face and her gleaming eyes and at her sari, if she found me wabi-sabi after all these years.
Coffee Planter's Diary The Mandala Snake "Why this particular fear of the mandala"? I asked him. "The cobra is poisonous, and they're here in greater numbers. You never mention a cobra sighting."
Coffee Planter's Diary The Truths About Corona Are Fake And That Is The Truth "We've hardly any corona," they said. "A fellow goes to the hospital with a fever. They throw him in a ward. They send him home in a few days. It's a scam."
State of the Union Independence Day, 2020 Even when I was five, it was a man that we celebrated on Independence Day. His name was Gandhi, we called him Bapu. He’s not so much in fashion anymore.
Indian Journeys The Lakshmi Narasimha Hoysala Temple at Nuggehalli It is over 750 years old, with sculpture done by the two celebrated Hoysala craftsmen of the thirteenth century — Mallitamma and Baichoja.
Bangalore To BBMP of Bangalore, a Word of Appreciation I’ve been visualising coming down with Covid as being in extremis, but — with these four, at least — that’s not the case.
Musing Will They Lockdown, Won't They Lockdown? This points to unbridled free speech in the Chief Minister's cabinet—a healthy democratic exercise, maybe, but workers are fleeing the city all over again.
Musing Too Great a Sacrifice Colonel Santosh Babu was 37 on June 15. Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla was 45 on December 9, 1971.
Travel Why Should I Travel? There's a part of me asking, in defiance of Montaigne, "Should I travel at all? Should I leave my home, really?" I'm pitting the Maharshi against Michel de Montaigne.
Not Feeling Pain for the Corona Victims The daily figures of those fallen to corona look like scores in cricket — a game I understand but don't follow. I read the statistics without emotion.
Coffee Planter's Diary Locked Down Plantation, Elephants, Sandalwood Smugglers It's a blue-topped bright-green world now during June, and more avians than ever in the twelve years I've known the place have flown into the plantation.
