by Devi Tejaswini | May 14, 2025 | Blogpost
If you’ve ever been into a forest—and liked it—there’s probably something that stayed with you. For one of my friends, it was a tree he named the White Elephant. For another friend, it was a caterpillar that they could never identify. For me, during my time in the... 
by Hussain Ebrahim | May 7, 2025 | Blogpost
On the full moon night of April’s pink moon, I walk with my five-year-old niece amidst mango showers in our colony, in hot and humid Bangalore. This time around, we observe plants, ants and tree barks. She surprised me with a peculiar flower that had bracts and was... 
by Deepika Sharma | Apr 23, 2025 | Blogpost
In April, it rains cotton in Delhi. The source of this cotton is the Semal tree or silk cotton tree which botanists call Bombax ceiba. It is for its showy, starfish-like scarlet flowers which bloom from February to March that city planners have adorned Delhi’s roads... 
by Anisha Karnail | Apr 16, 2025 | Blogpost
I often lose track of time. The pace of modern life is such. Sometimes days go by in such a blur, I have to check the calendar – What day is it exactly? Which month are we in? How long until the balmy summer gives way to cool rains? When will winter come? These... 
by Arulsaranya Masilamani | Apr 9, 2025 | Blogpost
During my childhood, trees were an integral part of my daily life. Our home was at the edge of the village, where the village ended and the coconut farms started. At school, we often had lunch beneath the shade of Thongu Moonji (Rain Tree). After school, my friends... 
by Rakhi Potphode | Apr 2, 2025 | Blogpost
It was October of 2022. It had only been a few weeks since I started working in a forest resort located in Lonavala as a ‘Naturalist’. I was conducting nature trails for a living. On one fine evening, I was returning from my nature trail and was going to...
