A delightful happenstance of running a natural farm has been the opportunity to share our adventures as a family, via a media platform as expansive as Deccan Herald, the beloved newspaper I was raised on. And so ‘Rooting For Nature’ is a coalescence of my love for writing, farming, nature and commonsensical, sustainable living.
The column publishes once a month on a Sunday, in the ‘Art and Pursuits’ page. It is where I chronicle our foibles, follies and brush with mysterious wild denizens and an odd human, even as we restore Navilu Kaadu, a land once poisoned with lethal chemical pesticides and weedicides, into a biodiverse wild farm and a zero-chemical food forest for humans and wild beings. Writing this column gives me much joy, and hearing back from readers of the column has been amplifying the joy many times over.
Thank you for reading. 🙂
June 30, 2024 – The plaintive cry of the lovesick songster
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May 19, 2024 – Fluffy bundle of paradoxes
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April 28, 2024 – The solitary signaller of dusk
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March 10, 2024 – Belligerence in a drum
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January 14, 2024 – All that glitters, disappears
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November 26, 2023 – Bug in a bubble wrap
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October 08, 2023 – The pact between wasp and fig
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August 20, 2023 – Tracking the farmers of the forest
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July 30, 2023 – A bag full of twisty secrets!
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June 23, 2023 – The case of the pesky intruders
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May 28, 2023 – The tale of a plucky minimalist
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April 23, 2023 – Carpenters of the wild
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March 19, 2023 – Cheroot-maker and lone ranger
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February 19, 2023 – A gift of trees from ajja
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January 29, 2023 – Under watchful eyes
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December 18, 2022 – Hunting for golden dust
November 06, 2022 – Weed and wonderful!
September 25, 2022 – Better than all treasures that in books are found…
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September 04, 2022 – A tree that longed for the sky
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July 24, 2022 – Life with the insect astronomer
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June 19, 2022 – There ‘s a tarantula in the kitchen!
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May 22, 2022 – A summer of shrieking cicadas
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April 17, 2022 – When keeper turns trapper
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March 20, 2022 – Our family and other animals
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Febryary 13, 2022 – Tangy tips from the tamarind
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January 16, 2022 – Marauders on mango plants
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December 12, 2021 – Lessons from a paper wasp
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November 14, 2021 – The pursuit of paradise
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