making life more meaningful

recent pictures of our terrace garden

Cheluvaraj — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:13:42 +0000

Charlie Brooker of BBC takes a look at the negative effects of aspirational TV.

Cheluvaraj — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:01:27 +0000

In the name of Development

Cheluvaraj — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:02:37 +0000

It’s really sad to see the land covered with concrete to look good and clean. This is what is happing at Vijaya bank layout, Bangalore.

Few weeks back, layout and park maintained by Vijaya bank started cleaning the park and it’s around area. Not sure who is getting this done. Whole park is redone with [...]

Saplings

Cheluvaraj — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:49:44 +0000

Today we had been to GKVK (Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra) University of Agricultural Sciences campus to buy saplings. We reached there by 12 noon and it’s being a Saturday they said they close at 12:30 PM so we had very less time to select the saplings. they are open from 9:00 AM to 3:00PM on [...]

Cheluvaraj — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:28:49 +0000

“We must bring back into society a deeper sense of the purpose of living. The unhappiness in so many lives ought to tell us that success alone is not enough. Material success has brought us to a strange spiritual and moral bankruptcy.” Ben Okri October 2008

growing vegetables on terrace

Cheluvaraj — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:42:43 +0000

ooty beans

Two weeks back, we decided to grow vegetable on our terrace. We again used all old big plastic cover for the same. We have more then 10 big plastic bags for now and we are planning to continue and grow as much as possible.

We have planted few verities of vegetables like chili, carrot, [...]

our terrace nursery

Cheluvaraj — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:39:30 +0000

jamun sapling

We wanted to start our Natural farming before this rainy season, but soon we realised that it’s not going to happen. So decided to do something on our terrace. We started plating seeds from the fruits what we eat at home. It was just begging of mango season and jamun and we started [...]

going GREEN

Cheluvaraj — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:49:20 +0000

The world used to be simple

Cheluvaraj — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:20:34 +0000

The world used to be simple. You merely noticed in passing that you got wet by brushing against the drops of dew while meandering through the meadow. But from the time people undertook to explain this one drop of dew scientifically, they trapped themselves in the endless hell of the intellect.

Water molecules are made up [...]

Why do you have to develop

Cheluvaraj — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:30:59 +0000

“Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What’s wrong with a growth rate of 0%? Isn’t this a rather stable kind of economics? Could there be anything better than living simply and taking it easy?

People find something out; learn how it works, [...]