Farmer's Distress...

Vast Paddy fields, sugarcane farms, banana plantations… I remember how much I got fascinated by all these, always… a cent percent city dweller, I could feast my eyes for hours on anything green and flourishing... I preferred NH47 to MC road whenever I travel, so I could see more greenery… I used to fight silly for window seats, to get an uninterrupted view of the fields spread up to horizon, bordered by rows of coconut trees or lakes… and I got jealous of people who owned those fields, who could live there, work there, and enjoy the calm, serene, self sufficient life I thought ideal… I even dreamt of owning a house in the midst of a farm, close by a river…
Now I realize how far the truth is… I see the latest statistics of farmers taking their lives, unable to cope with the changes brought about by a churn in socio-economic conditions… the stress on peasantry, imposed by neoliberal policy regime of the country… the tragic developments in India’s agrarian economy…
And when I take a second look at these farms, all I see is not green….

"Buddha smiles???"

I watch clouds... sometimes to kill time, sometimes to shake away a bad mood, yet some other time while I day dream... I let myself wander away along with the ever changing, never ending, spectacular, sometimes funny patterns, turning the whole sky into a huge kaleidoscope... This time I saw a big column of thick white clouds in an otherwise clear sky, slowly swirling up into a shape that reminded me of the ‘little boy’ and ‘fat man’…the massive destructions and devastations… The millions of sufferers... the heartbreaking descriptions of the survivors… and with my tributes to them, here I add one picture of the fateful moment in the history…

Photograph of Column of Smoke over Hiroshima,6 august 1945

Lush

"Its Raining Out There!"

After months of scorching heat, there was a heavy downpour lastnight.. This is how it looked from my balcony, the trees stooping down, the road and roof wet and aglow,reflecting the neon lamp at the gate..

"Waves"

'Perfect Balance'

Much awaited guests..

the very first monsoon clouds of the season...

Queer

"Single Parent"

Gulmohar

Peeping Beauty

Carnivorous Bee?

I thought that all bees, beetles etc. are pure herbivores living on honey,pollen and fruit and plant sap... till i saw this unknown insect in my garden, devouring a smaller one...

"Road-runner"

in the midst of the city, i never expected to see such a bird in the premises of my house... the bird looked equally confused ,and it fled away immediately even before i could capture it in a good frame....

Misty Morning

Splash

To Rest Awhile

Toad Family

Spill

Milkman

"It's My Mom..!"

Tiny

The smallest book in my library!