Shared Ecologies

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 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 Isabel Santa Rita Vas Aldona I was born in Panjim and we lived on the first floor, and all that we had in terms of a garden was about two square metres at the entrance. I left the house at ten years or so. Interesting house with a sort of

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Jose Lourenco Velim, Salcete Our house in Velim is about 110 years old, and a mango tree and a chikoo tree were there from almost the beginning. The mango tree was around four or five stories high, a single vertical column rising into the air with a horizontal branch, on

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Architect PV Raikar Orlim, Salcete When I think of trees, the thing that comes to mind first is when I was in third-fourth standard. The lifestyle was—go to school, come back for lunch around one-thirty, have lunch, do your studies till about four o’clock and then go out to play

Tree Memories by Salil Chaturvedi Sandhya Yadav Chorao island We used to live in a rented house in Madel waddo in Chorao, and behind it there was a very old and huge Imli tree. The house was not big. It was just a room, about 10×12 feet and the tree was adjoining the rear wall,

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

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 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.