Huli-de-Vana

 When the jackfruit makes an appearance, it is always in grand style and in huge groups! We have a very tall tree on the farm and the jackfr...

 O.N.E. A grating cracking sound just beyond the parked car.   It was too loud for me to go back to sleep.   The dogs were strangely quiet...

  THUD!!!!! The sound was rather unusual   - more so because it was followed by   high pitched squeaking squealing   sounds.   I was in th...

  A picture that caught my eye…..just so….…. an incredible work of  art   using discarded denim jeans.   T wo graceful horses drawing   a ca...

  It   is early June and the buzz going around among the few farmers who are still cultivating rice is – “Kai Nattie / Machine Nattie?” Na...

6 am – dark overcast skies, lashing rain all the way to Mangalore airport, rain on the tarmac…….hoping that the flights are not delayed!  ...

  The number of small land holders who have given up rice cultivation in our area is   increasing   at an alarming pace.     No longer do I ...

  A whole calendar   year   just whizzed past and I feel like a solitary being on a dimly lit railway station watching the bogeys of Life Ex...

  Pick up the pieces Try to join them again So what if they don’t fit …to make what it once was, Try to join them again And make...