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,... 
by Aditi Vijayan | Jul 17, 2024 | Blogpost
Having trees as friends is not uncommon. They are extremely patient listeners, comforting and sometimes (you may not believe this) also respond! As a teenager with a lot of stories and gossip to share, in search of some privacy, I would sneak onto the balcony to talk... 
by Santhini Govindan | Jul 10, 2024 | Blogpost
In 1975, my mother-in-law, Mrs Janaki Kurup, planted a chikoo (sapota) tree in the garden of the house that she had bought in South Bangalore two years earlier. When I came to the house as a bride in 1979, the chikoo tree was only the size of a large bush, but it was... 
by Vikram Iyer | Jun 26, 2024 | Blogpost
Of the many plants I have photographed, the vast majority have been within a few metres of a road, or at least a trail or path of some sort. I am almost always close enough for traffic noise to come through. It is truly amazing how much diversity survives, persists,...
