Bird tales from Puttakere

As you eat, so shall you poop The trees on the island at our Puttenahalli Puttakere have turned white with splotches of bird poop. At first, we attributed it to the Brahminy kite which was then nesting on the tall Terminalia arjuna. We saw the chick grow and hop from one branch to another. WhenContinue reading “Bird tales from Puttakere”

End of the year greetings

We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a great new year.  We wish ourselves the same too! For, truth be told, 2023 was a period of endless challenges for us at PNLIT.  Puttenahalli Puttakere sailed through the year but we had to fight hard to protect it, help it thrive. Officers changed and weContinue reading “End of the year greetings”

PNLIT – Caretakers of Puttenahalli Lake for 13 years

Today, 11th June, we complete 13 years of nurturing Puttenahalli Lake in south Bengaluru. Our team was registered as Puttenahalli Neighbourhood Lake Improvement Trust (PNLIT) on this day in 2010 with Prasanna Vynatheya, Arathi Manay, OP Ramaswamy and me as founder trustees. Prasanna stepped down. Other residents, Nupur Jain, Sangeetha Agrawal, Divya Shetty and Nandhini Sriraaman joined the Trust.  Our Vision was to: Encourage localContinue reading “PNLIT – Caretakers of Puttenahalli Lake for 13 years”