🌿 Discover Farming, Friendship, and Freshness at Vihara Community Farm Have you ever dreamt of owning farmland or growing your own food, but weren’t sure where to begin? You’re not alone. That itch to connect with the soil, escape the city grind, and try your hand at something real is shared by many. That’s exactly why we started the Vihara Community Farm — a space just over an hour from Hyderabad, where that dream can be lived, explored, and shaped together. 🚜 What is Vihara Community Farm? Nestled in the peaceful village of Jameelapet, about 74 km along the ORR […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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The fear of dogs-and the routine calls for them to be muzzled inside society premises-is, frankly, a symptom of a certain kind of urban detachment. I say this not out of cynicism but from repeated experience. Step into an elevator with your dog in most apartment complexes, and you’ll witness a familiar scene: residents gasp, recoil, and exclaim, “Oh my God!” as if the animal should’ve somehow folded itself into a handbag or taken the service lift like a condemned appliance. They often refuse to enter, even when I say, “It’s okay. He’ll stay calm if you stay calm.” But […]
A few weeks back when the missus was away sleepless in Seattle I drove down to the farm at 4:45AM with the kids and Bagheera, our pet Indie, in tow. We reached around 6AM and Nagalakshmi, the better half of the farmer couple that resides at the farm looking after it, went catatonic fussing over the babies. She made their favourite potato bhaji and rotis for breakfast and gave them fresh milk from the cowshed to drink. We all tried to communicate in sign language, broken Telugu and of course Google translate. I went about my tasks for the day. […]
Since I was a kid I have known about this flower courtesy my mother. She was and still is, in my eyes, the foremost authority on anything and everything to do with farming. We lived in a huge house, my father was a high ranking government servant who managed to get transferred within the same city over the course of our stay in Lucknow. The house was surrounded by around 2 acres of land. From the time I was 5 years old till I was 19 I have worked on those lands along with my brothers and of course my […]