Malnad 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.
Malnad 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."
Malnad 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."
Malnad 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.
Malnad Malnad Diary: March The birds kept up their pitiable cries for over a half-hour. I cannot say what was up with them. Did they sight a cat? Was one in their numbers cuckolded?
Malnad A Vegan Prayer Ceremony for Chowdy This Year When he brought his machete crashing down, slicing the banana and the vibhuti, and cracking the coconut, there wasn't in this year's poojé the yellow of yolk or the goo of egg-white.
Malnad Sound And Silence In Coffee Country After sundown the plantation is handed in full to the night, for it to perform its miracles and mysteries with it.
Malnad Death by the Trunk of an Elephant Such a death everybody had been anticipating — somebody would go like this, somebody other than them. Everybody was proved right, all but a 40-year-old, owner of the plantation next to ours on our east.
Musing An Indian Ruminates on Independence Day Though some of us speak of lost values and vanished principles, none will risk disruption of this opiate prosperous state of being.
Malnad Kadumane Estate — A Giant Theater I take a last look at the glowing mist that has filled the trees and capped the hills. It is as though a cold white heat has rimmed this world, this enormous bowl ringed by hills.
Malnad The White Planter's Coffee Club Peering through time, the mists are thick. In their haze are white men from six-thousand miles away, seeking fortune and adventure in the jungles of Malnad.
Malnad 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.
Indian Journeys 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.
Malnad 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.
Malnad 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.
Malnad 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.
