indian wildlife In Tiger Country We gaped at the tiger's gleaming coat, the elegance in her gait, her ease of being, the sheer majesty of her.
Coffee Planter's Diary Featured Sound and Silence in Coffee Country Vagaries of weather might diminish the coffee, but they can't take away the green hills and trees of Malnad and the quiet of the country.
Birding The Crested Serpent-Eagle Sometimes, however, it did look down at us, its yellow-ringed eyes boring deep into our conscience.
Birding The River Terns at the Bhadra The terns are in the hundreds, thousands, flitting around, absorbed in what they're wired for, paying no attention to you or your boat.
Travel Chasing Tiger So many wild creatures appeared, creating a sublime setting—but what's its use when the tiger is missing in the scene?
indian wildlife The Tusker at Kabini The forest had been rained on for over a week; there was gloss and lustre on the lush greens, the muddy path was wet and shining, and framed in that setting was this huge handsome beast.
Musing I Know a Cure, Too "I know folks who use Nexito," I wished to say. "For depression. It's said it does the least harm to the libido—which you know how to manage anyway."
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 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 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.
