The author reflects on childhood memories of enjoying Taadgola and Neera in Bombay while expressing concern over the decline of local, sustainable products like palm jaggery in favor of industrial cane sugar. Advocating for localized economies, the text highlights the environmental benefits and health superiority of palm jaggery over its cheaper counterpart.
Category: Food for Thought
Can natural – organic – sustainable – regenerative farming feed the world?
A lot of people agree that sustainable ways of farming are good for the ecosystems, humans and animals. But they don’t agree that it will be able to feed the world. The yield of individual crops have known to be lesser in sustainable farming than conventional agriculture. But rarely are the systems compared in entirety….
Farm Bills and Stone Age
A common argument that we hear against the simple lifestyle that Noushadya and I are trying to lead is that we are going backwards from the common narratives of progress and development. The comment that we usually encounter is that we are heading towards the stone age. While it is known or can be intelligently…
Cold pressed oils : Fad or here-to-stay ?
Oils labelled as cold pressed oils have started appearing in supermarkets, kirana stores, exclusive oil shops all around us. They are being sold in both packaged and loose forms. In Tamil, it is called Sekku Ennai; or pronounced as Chekku Ennai by people of southern Tamil Nadu. The manufacturers are both domestic as well as…
The Wilting Flower
The wilting flower is a joy to behold too. It had lived a great life of sunshine and breeze and petals that showered pollens to the flirty kisses of bees. It had seen the wondrous growth of forests and touched the bellies of small squirrels standing inquisitively on their hind legs. It has played its…
Why organic food is costlier?
It seems counter-intuitive but the current sense of the word ‘Culture’ seems to have been derived from the word ‘Agriculture’ and not the other way around. And it is ironic that there is almost no culture left in mainstream agriculture anymore. What we are now seeing is not synthesis, which is what agriculture needs, but…
SPNF (ZBNF) ‘s critique
5 minute read Subhash Palekar has claimed in TOI’s editorial page a few months back that ‘Organic farming is worse than an atom bomb‘. This blog comes a little too late. But this was on my mind and in the drafts of my blog posts in the WordPress app. I just got around to complete…
Gratitude for our Sustainability journey
It takes a village to raise a child, it is said. I think – It also takes a village to run a farm. Economies of large scale and consumerism don’t favour the sustainability movement one bit. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Almost none of the industries, which rely on resources from nature, care about recharging the source…
Short Blog : Greatest environmental contribution you can do in a city
DIET! There, I said it. Sue me! 5 minute read 70% of fresh water consumed in India is for agriculture. So, if one had to start looking for environmental, social, political problems to solve, it is one of the obvious places here. The greatest day to day act, in my opinion, to save trees, is…
A note on Climate Change
Over the past one century, the amount of destruction liberalized capitalist and communist countries have imposed upon this planet and human society has been enormous. This is a result of a system propagated by Government, Businesses and Civil Society. We can’t blame one arm of the civilization alone. The blame is on everyone. If you…
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