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Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Rana Dasgupta Kent, England I grew up in England. I was born in Kent, a place of extreme natural beauty. In our garden we had a Cobnut tree. It’s not a very common tree, and some of my earliest memories are of these Cobnuts lying in our garden. My mother,

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Remi Gass Alsace, France The first tree I remember as unique in my memory was when I was very small. I must have been three-four years old. My parents would bring us on Sundays to make a little tour in the forest in Alsace. There was a little chapel there

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Vandana Shiva Dehradun My earliest tree memory is the Harshringar, which used to be my mother’s favourite; she had planted it. The flowers fall at night and in the morning, it is beautifully layered. We were in Lakhimpur Kheri, and that image of the flowers…even today when I see the

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Amit Dahiyabadshah New Delhi My earliest memory of a tree is when I was a very young child and I was taken to Bombay where a girl from our village had become a movie star. She loved taking people out, showing them how films were made. She paid for many

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Arjun Dahanu Kerala My early childhood was completely interlinked with the coconut tree. Most of the activities were around the coconut tree. Every forty-five days, or so, there was plucking, sorting, de-husking; every part of the tree was used. I was especially fond of watching the de-husking of the coconut.

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Mridula Koshy New Delhi The first tree that I remember in my life is not a specific tree. I was born in Safdarjung hospital and taken home to what used to be Curzon Road and is now the Kasturba Gandhi Marg. There was a flat my father lived in. There’s

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Pradip Krishen While working on my book, The Jungle Trees of Central India, I was hopping from jungle to jungle trying to discover the trees there. During these trips I discovered a tree that I connected to instantly because of the smell of its flowers. I remembered the smell very

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Colonel Prem Pratap Singh Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh I grew up in a remote village called Kargwan in the Hamirpur district of Bundelkhand. I cherish the memories of two trees—one, the Pakhad; the other, the Allauva. I don’t know what they are called in English*. Allauva is a very small tree