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Tag: trees

  • The Discarded Gods

      mornings I am rushing to Vasco, for classes at MES College, but since the drive is beautiful and I belong to generation that has to be 5mnts ahead of appointment I leave home a little early. I get off at chicalim take the local to zuarinagar and walk down. The bus-stop at chicalim used…

  • A legacy of love –Leaving the Earth a Better Place

    A legacy of love –Leaving the Earth a Better Place Nations, communities, settlement, for that  what we are have an obligation on not only to the poorer section of the society, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it…

  • A little about Trees

    A little about Trees

    Sometimes  I wonder if the current government is waging a war with trees. In the name of development we seem to indiscriminately cut trees, old trees that provided the shade along well laid roads have been chopped off too, and the ground has been cemented. Yet somewhere along the way, the trees, are our second…

  • WEEDS—Messengers from the wilderness.

    WEEDS—Messengers from the wilderness. I was busy telling Sundari to weed the garden, it was then that I saw the tiny violet flowers with deep purple centres; these were the weeds of monsoon. It was so beautiful that I asked Sundari to leave it, she told me, that it would eat into the fertilizer of…

  • Jarjara– the arbor Mundi

    Great aunt Kittadoddamma had her favourite narration of the samudra manthan and how the vatavriskha and the Kalpataru came out of it. She would explain to us how the Kalpataru was bejewelled and rich. As usual Param-ajja would snort and he would tell us that the kalpataru was nothing but the coconut tree which contributed…