Some banyan trees have stone walls. Like my Alma Mater who is entering her 75th year. From a single tree in the centre, many trees have grown, are still growing all around, while staying connected at the core. This is not just a description of the campus and how it has spread out around theContinue reading “Some Banyan Trees have Stone Walls”
Category Archives: Sacred Grove
A Date with Dayara Bugyal
(Part 3 of a series on a trek to Dayara Bugyal) Why are we trekking? This was a question on many minds – it emerged, from conversations during the trek and after. Is this “mazaa” or “sazaa” (pleasure or punishment) was a question debated much one morning, towards the end of the trek. “What isContinue reading “A Date with Dayara Bugyal”
Signing up to meet the mountains…
(Part 2 of a series on a trek to Dayara Bugyal) What can one say of trekking in the Himalayas? Words cannot contain the experience. Pictures cannot depict all its colours. No song can hold all its music and silences. Yet, I tried to map various aspects of my trek to Dayara Bugyal, Uttarakhand, withContinue reading “Signing up to meet the mountains…”
You are the Beloved. Green.
(Part 1 of a series on a trek to Dayara Bugyal) You are the Beloved. Green – the colour of the heart chakra. You are the stark tree – brown and without branches. You are the bells tied around the necks of mules and cows. Jingling day and night. You are the undulating slopes ofContinue reading “You are the Beloved. Green.”
Bhoomi Habba at Visthar
The Bhoomi Habba at Visthar is a true celebration of the earth and all its creatures. For many years, the Treevellers’ Katte has participated in this unique festival and witnessed people’s deep connection with trees. People from over the city (and many from other cities and towns) gather at Visthar’s spectacular (green, brown and manyContinue reading “Bhoomi Habba at Visthar”
Talking trees in a Conference Room
How close can you be to trees when you’re in the Conference Room of an office located in an Industrial Area? Very close, it seems from a recent Treevellers’ Katte session held at Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), Bangalore. Almost every participant brought a tree to the table. From cashew trees to coconut trees, arecaContinue reading “Talking trees in a Conference Room”
“Thank you trees for giving life”
“So, what do you do? Every day you roam around near trees?” It was a very genuine question, straight from a child’s heart. The Treevellers’ Katte was all set up. We were just gathering around the trees, under the trees to talk trees. “How I wish!” said my adult brain but my treeveller’s heart broughtContinue reading ““Thank you trees for giving life””
What happened at the Treevellers’ Katte
The Neralu Tree Festival (continuing from my previous post on ‘The Story of “treevelling”‘) offered a range of workshops, walks and other activities at chosen green spaces in the city. Completely run by volunteers, the Festival was a unique event that drew out Bangaloreans from their recreational pursuits towards walking in the city’s streets andContinue reading “What happened at the Treevellers’ Katte”
The story of “treevelling”
If you’ve read even one of the posts on this blog you might have wondered on the genesis of the word “treeveller.” No, it is not in the dictionary but, who knows, it could yet be. Ever since I threw the words tree, travel and revel together (circa 2016) to concoct “treeveller” (that is also,Continue reading “The story of “treevelling””
Grateful for Green
The tough times continue. All the hope that sprouted with the opening of a new calendar year now co-exists with the dread and gloom of rising infections, fear of new variants, news of everyone and everyone being in quarantine, and other not so “positive” developments. When can a cough be just a cough and notContinue reading “Grateful for Green”
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