Sorting Garbage

When I first started to compost my biodegradable waste, I had a pot with earthworms and indiscriminately put everything I generated into it. Very soon, the little fellows began to die and baby cockroaches started to take over.  Between cockroaches and maggots, the composting was happening very quickly, but there was a high chance that…

Monsoon Mauja

In most parts of India, monsoon is a beautiful season. The scorching heat of the summer starts to simmer down, and the first monsoon showers arrive with the smell of petrichor. It is also the season of mangoes, jackfruits, pineapples, and jamun. In many places, it brings a new season of blooms (we have adopted…

Ideas for a Wet Day

When I was a kid, torrential rains in Chennai from cyclones of the northeast monsoons usually meant ‘Rain Holidays’. The State Government would declare that all educational institutions be shut, and I would spend the day at home, enchanted by the pleasant surprise. This usually meant finding ways to amuse myself, without going out (or…