A Year with Trees

If there is a tree that truly represents India, it is Peepal. From as far back in time as the Indus Valley Civilization, pottery has been excavated with designs featuring leaves of the Peepal tree. It...

12 Aug 202513min

I am talking about the terms plant blind and plant aware today because the tree which I am going to talk about today made me realise how even ardent tree watchers like me can become plant blind someti...

19 Maj 202513min

Kids and parrots have much in common. Not only can they chatter incessantly all day long, but they love the same kind of fruits, too. These fruits have soft skin or flesh and are sweet or tangy. So am...

11 Maj 202511min

While strawberry trees don't have strawberry-like fruits hanging from them, the berries that do hang from them are equally beautiful, particularly when a tree is full of red and green berries. Let me ...

2 Maj 202510min

The atrocious summer heat in India is welcome if it means a sweeter yield of two of my favourite fruits, namely, mango and lychee. I have already made an episode on mangoes in which I have poured my h...

27 Apr 202511min

This tree is not native to India. Yet, it is impossible to imagine a garden or a park in India without at least one specimen of this tree. A fruit market is incomplete without a mound of its fruit. Th...

18 Apr 20259min

If there is a tree that could be as precious as a gem, then it is Mahua. When the cream-coloured flowers of mahua shower down at dawn during Spring, people from villages flock to the forests and colle...

11 Apr 20258min

If I tell you that the tree in the spotlight today belongs to the citrus family and its fruit is used to make a delicious summer drink, your answer might be lemon. While it's quite close to the correc...

3 Apr 20259min