Embrace the pursuits of regeneration and restoration as we relinquish the old and usher in the new–invigorating our inner and outer worlds with a renewed sense of purpose.
Clearing culverts and a river, and turning Coonoor's decades-old dumpyard into a garden.
BY Ramya Reddy
Cardboard, compost, and no-dig beds in the Nilgiris, and a gardener renewed alongside her soil.
BY Gayatri Ganesh
A homecoming to Ooty after Rome: woodsmoke, eucalyptus, sweet chai, and the scent of the mother that guides you back.
BY Kavita Malstead
An art therapist, a refugee boy in the Blue Mountains, and paper, clay, and water as a way back.
BY Prabhu Viswanathan
Regeneration, restoration, and the turning of the wheel, in Issue 5 of the journal.
Tagore's river that becomes the sea, an awakening after cancer, and renewal as a kind of shedding.
BY Malati Mukherjee
From grassland to tea and eucalyptus, and the slow work of bringing native Nilgiri shola and marsh back.
BY Ajay Ludra
An Odissi dancer, a knee that gave way mid-performance, and the slow return to a changed body.
BY Swati Prasad
A first year in the New Mexico desert, fresh snow underfoot, and a whiptail lizard's lesson in starting over.
BY Ellen Petry Leanse
Learning to cook for herself at thirty, a mother's Monday dal, and the women who went without.
BY Amrita Amesur
High estates, cold nights, and winter frost: what makes Nilgiri tea so fine, and how to brew a cup.
BY Sandeep Subramani