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”
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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”
Homage to Our Mentor
Mr. Bhoja Shetty, IFS (retd) (4 Sept. 1922 – 6 Mar. 2022) A fallen flower on the pathway at the lake stopped me short on 5th March 2022. I looked up at the tree and saw one big cluster of flowers way above and buds a little lower. Our mentor Mr. Bhoja Shetty who had retiredContinue reading “Homage to Our Mentor”
Reflections on the Buddha Coconut
I hadn’t heard of a tree called Buddha Coconut till BBMP gave four saplings for our first tree plantation drive in July 2010. I hadn’t heard of some others too but we were getting them for free at a point when we, trustees, didn’t have the money to organize such an exercise. The planting siteContinue reading “Reflections on the Buddha Coconut”
Usha Rajagopalan "Lakeika" 