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Kadamane: kal, aaj, aur kal

August 2, 2009

Their meal is a mess on the plate and a mess round the mouth—the kids seem to like what they are eating. For the smallest children the ayahs squeeze the morsels dry in their hands and push them into the mouths, a child at a time, patiently drawing them back from constant distraction. This creche [...]

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the view from Munzerabad club

June 9, 2009

Years ago, I often shuttled with my parents between Bangalore (and Mysore) and Mangalore, and crossed the coffee-belt midway. In all my memories I peer through the trees of the plantations from the rear window, always through mist or rain or the dark, looking for the fabled estate-mansions. I saw my first plantation-homes these last [...]

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The Planters Club celebrates its Silver Jubilee

November 29, 2008

The first signs in this season of harvest are disappointing. Harsh rains have felled coffee beans, which were red and ready for picking. So earnings will be poor this year in the coffee belt. But the disappointment did not show at the Planters Club where three hundred people from the planter community assembled to celebrate [...]

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a much-loved beast of burden

August 31, 2008

I’ve told you about elephants that descend from the hills at night and visit the plantations in Malnad. A recent post of mine tells of the torrent of trucks from the mines of Bellary that has already ruined the Sakleshpur highway—soon the green on either side of the highway will be laid waste, when the [...]

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elephantine things

August 11, 2008

While trekking in Bhumthang in Bhutan some years ago, we asked our guide, a strapping Bhutanese, how to escape if we were to encounter a bear. He didn’t know. Sujaya remembered what someone had told her, that you should run in a wide zigzag, so as to beat the bear’s side vision. The bear can’t [...]

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Why is Shankar Shetru leaving Sakleshpur?

July 5, 2008

Some like me are half-settling in Sakleshpur. Some illustrious ones are leaving. Like Shankar Shetru. We telephoned him and he offered to tell us how to plant and maintain pepper and he asked us to meet him with a two-hundred page notebook, and with two hours on hand. But he is seventy-six years old and [...]