Category Archives: Plants and People

Art in a changing world

Posted on October 19, 2017 by rgeeta

On a recent visit to the Crafts Museum in Delhi, I thought again about why tribal paintings tended to portray diverse types of animals, but only one kind of tree or, at least, one that can not be easily identified … Continue reading →

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pooshini/petha/ash-gourd/Benincasa hispida

Posted on September 19, 2015 by rgeeta

However small a fruit one buys, it is always large. That is, lots to experiment with. Much modified recipe for Kairi Chi Amti to make a Pooshini Chi Amti. Chop up ash gourd; cover with a suspension of coconut milk + red … Continue reading →

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Prosopis juliflora

Posted on September 16, 2015 by rgeeta

Goat-killing menace mutates to clean energy source in rural Kenya “The plant was first introduced into the area about 25 years ago by the Kenyan government and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization to serve as a windbreak to cut … Continue reading →

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Plants and People — random stuff

Posted on July 12, 2015 by rgeeta

Sugar and … Sugar in history The refining process: one account and another … Spice and … Everything you wanted to know about spices …other things nice Rayon (much modified from wood fibre) Could it be an  alternative to cotton, that oh-so-comfortable-but-most-polluting-and-worse … Continue reading →

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