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Category: The Great Connect

  • The Community Garden at Taleigao

    It is such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth to feel at one’s finger tips the possibilities of the new seasons. Growing up in rural west coast, between fields and kitchen gardens we pottered around, it helped us connect and the single greatest lesson that we learnt was that our relationship…

  • The Real Heroes

    A lofty call, how will I teach my kids to press Ctrl+S   for nature? Well I will not, teach them. Simply because kids cannot be taught, they learn through imitation. They imbibe values that we can hand them. We are destroying forests, we are destroying wild life, we have come to a stage where we…

  • Mutation Not Evolution.

    An interesting prompt. How do we teach kids to keep environment safe? The answer is WE DON’T, the onus of keeping the earth safe, for human existence is on us and not the kids. Let’s  just take a deep a breathe, and connect with the environment, ever thought of it? Turn the television off, the…

  • Chaitra Shukla Padya.

    Chaitra Shukla Padya.

    The first day of the brand new calendar year is  an empowered time to psychologically unwind to mentally find ones own life charged emotionally with refined energy and enthusiasm to create a beautiful growth paradigm within the physically defined laws of nature and rules of the game called LIFE. Today is the onset of new…

  • Dedicated to my Math Teachers.

    World Mathematics day dedication “Mama what’s upsetting you” asked my daughter Tee. She is so wonderful she knows the difference between when I am upset and when I am angry she will never mix up the two. She is one of those unique individuals who will tell you the difference between indigo-lavender-lilac and purple precisely.…

  • A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya

    A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya

    Growing up in western coastal towns, Nagabana, the placement of Garadi all made me realize that the ethnic religious cult was very close to nature and revered nature. Unfortunately it is being devoured by the more powerful brahmanical cult. Interestingly Kalidasa’s Vikramuurvashiiya talks of Nakshatravana or the green patch. The legend of Urvashi also has…