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 29, 2025 – The rainbird’s monsoon odyssey
June 01, 2025 – Looking out for the winged percussionist
May 04, 2025 – Nothing hare-brained about the Indian hare!
April 06, 2025 – The solitary world of the potter wasp
March 02, 2025 – Chronicles of a honey hustler
January 18, 2025 – The dragons basking in toasty sunlight
December 15, 2024 – The tale of a tenacious mother
November 17, 2024 – A beauty called Crimson Rose
October 20, 2024 – The delicate dance of the dragonfly
September 29, 2024 – The dapper terminator of rodents
August 25, 2024 – The fast and the curious
July 28, 2024 – A quick-tempered fellow with a snout
June 30, 2024 – The plaintive cry of the lovesick songster
May 19, 2024 – Fluffy bundle of paradoxes
April 28, 2024 – The solitary signaller of dusk
March 10, 2024 – Belligerence in a drum
January 14, 2024 – All that glitters, disappears
November 26, 2023 – Bug in a bubble wrap
October 08, 2023 – The pact between wasp and fig
August 20, 2023 – Tracking the farmers of the forest
July 30, 2023 – A bag full of twisty secrets!
June 23, 2023 – The case of the pesky intruders
May 28, 2023 – The tale of a plucky minimalist
April 23, 2023 – Carpenters of the wild
March 19, 2023 – Cheroot-maker and lone ranger
February 19, 2023 – A gift of trees from ajja
January 29, 2023 – Under watchful eyes
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…
September 04, 2022 – A tree that longed for the sky
July 24, 2022 – Life with the insect astronomer
June 19, 2022 – There ‘s a tarantula in the kitchen!
May 22, 2022 – A summer of shrieking cicadas
April 17, 2022 – When keeper turns trapper
March 20, 2022 – Our family and other animals
Febryary 13, 2022 – Tangy tips from the tamarind
January 16, 2022 – Marauders on mango plants
December 12, 2021 – Lessons from a paper wasp
November 14, 2021 – The pursuit of paradise
