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. […]
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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 […]