by Aditi Rao | Sep 6, 2024 | Blogpost
Last year, around this time, I was in Kumbarwada, a place in Kali Tiger Reserve, Dandeli. I was working on my master’s thesis about how knowledge about tubers is passed down from older to younger people in the Kunbi community. The Kunbis are a forest community that... 
by Palak Gupta | Sep 4, 2024 | Blogpost
With its glossy green foliage, the small fig tree in my house has nurtured many generations of birds. Its rounded canopy, set away from surrounding walls, is a popular spot among small birds looking for a site to nest. Here, one can witness the endless drama of life... 
by Aksa Sebastian | Aug 21, 2024 | Blogpost
Nature has a unique way of grabbing our attention, often through subtle yet enchanting gestures that can transform our perception of the world around us. My story gives a different perspective on this, rooted in a personal experience during the COVID-19 lockdown. It... 
by Adithi Muralidhar | Aug 14, 2024 | Blogpost
Rose-ringed Parakeet on the Rain Tree In the crowded city of Mumbai, the exotic Rain tree usually makes news for all the wrong reasons. Its branches are not known to be the strongest and are the first to fall during the city’s infamous monsoons. They are also... 
by Anu Paul | Aug 7, 2024 | Blogpost
It was my curiosity to watch birds, and flowers closer or rather wanting to be closer to them, I started to zoom them in with my camera. Slowly I started clicking pictures of birds, flowers, trees, and animals around me as a way to savor those milliseconds of time... 
by Sindhuja Sarasram | Jul 24, 2024 | Blogpost
‘Amma, which tree is that sutta pazham/ sudatha pazham legend about?’ I, a non-religious person, asked my very pious mother about a mythological story 1 I had heard as a child. The detail of the tree species is beside the point of the story’s metaphor, but my mother,...
