Poems
The Kodava
Featured Image: © Kaveri Ponnapa as appearing in The Vanishing Kodavas.
The Kodava is a sequel to The Arrow and the Song. This is amongst...
The Arrow and the Song
Featured Image © - Kaveri Ponnapa
This is so appropriate in the context of Kodagu's Culture in that bana (arrow) has a lot of significance....
The Magic of Fireflies: A Call to Conserve
I visited the village of Kone in Nashik district yesterday where we are doing conservation and ecological restoration. I had a magical experience of...
The Way of Light
What is darkness
but the absence of knowing?
A pause between thoughts,
a canvas stretched too wide
for certainty to cling.
Yet even then,
light insists.
Not in thunder,
not in blaze—
but...
A Place Apart: Forest Trees of My Village
A Place Apart Portrays the sense of dislocation and erosion of identity that the Kodava people have felt over the past decades. The magnificent landscape...