Why is Shankar Shetru leaving Sakleshpur?
Every morning, the planter should walk everywhere in his plantation — the trees and the pepper and the coffee seek his smell.
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Coffee Planter's Diary
A coffee planter's journal from Malnad, the coffee corridor of India, where I'm an absentee coffee planter, visiting when I can …
The Drowned French Church At Magge
But I saw and wondered at the power of government — how when they so choose they can arrive at a citizen's door and tell them to leave because they're going to flood their home.
Hassan Town: Our Beginnings
It's all very promising. A deep trench is dug on our boundary for a high wall to stand. A micro-economy has sent out its baby roots.
Hassan: Memories and Lanes
Three or four matches were on simultaneously — quite often, a hit from one game sent the ball to the field of another.
A Place That Cheered Us
I said out loud that I'd build a study by the tank if I owned a plantation, but the planter didn't quite approve. "Snakes," he said. In the manner in which he said it, there appeared to be other threats as well that he wouldn't speak of.