A platform for and
from the Western Ghats
In 2010, as our semester drew to an end, my college gang was eager to vacation off the grid, and we got the perfect recommendation.
To enter the 7-acre expanse of Little Flower Farms is to experience life in the lush forests of the Western Ghats
How to tune into the quiet of the ‘blue mountains’, despite the crowds and over-development of Ooty—a frequent visitor ‘ambles with Anne’, a local tour guide.
India’s coffee scene has never been more buzzing—or more unpredictable. We speak to historians, coffee-growers, and artisanal brands on the past, present, and future of this dark, bitter wonderbean.
Ever heard the saying ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’?
As someone who spent their childhood in crowded cities, I have found the mountains hold a sort of mysterious appeal. My earliest memory of the mountains is from a family trip to Chail in Himachal Pradesh, when I was 11 years old.
“We were driving on a road—little more than a dirt track with large pot holes—the car’s headlights eerily reflecting off the swaying silver oaks among the tea bushes and occasionally elephant or gaur dung making us wary of running into one of these great animals.
Meeting Dr Raees Muhammed on a cold winter morning at a friend’s office in Coonoor, I am struck by his open, smiling face as he ushers in Tamil Chelvan, a young lad of 20, his teammate at Clean Nilgiris.
‘I wouldn’t say the sky islands of the southern Western Ghats are shrinking or being destroyed. Rather, they are being transformed and changed,’
A detailed growing guide to nurturing avocados, from a veteran farmer in the Palani Hills of Kodaikanal