Tribute to the sun, solar eclipse, August 21, 2017
Organic Farming at Savista
At Savista, we are just entering our kharif agricultural season. The Indian kharif agricultural season coincides with the monsoons. It spans the months starting from late June / mid-July when the rains start ( depending on the region concerned), and ends in mid-September when the harvest takes place. The crops sown in this season are […]
Of Monsoon Rhythms and Golden Orioles
The delayed heavy rains following upon the first pre-monsoon showers that we reported on in our last post did the disappearing trick, and once again the onset of the full-scale monsoon was delayed. Once again, there was a fairly long dry hot spell. Now, at last, the rains look like they might be taking on […]
The rains have arrived!
We have been having fairly regular thunder showers through the last fortnight and, from the day following the summer solstice, these brief and furious showers have been a daily occurrence. But it was only late last evening that the rains in their full glory arrived at Savista. It went on to rain steadily and heavily through […]
Jaipur Seasons: The Golden Tecoma – Trying to Outshine the Sun?
Within four days of the spring equinox, the movement of the sun northwards seems to have accelerated! We can feel it in the growing heat of the day; We can feel it in the intensity of early morning bird calls; And suddenly, wherever we look, the Golden Tecoma seems to have come alive in a […]
Savista Salutes the Spring Equinox, New Year, and Nature’s Renewal
Over March 20/21 – when the world in the northern hemisphere was bonding over the Spring Equinox, the special day in the year of equal day and night – special things began happening at Savista too! As if due to just that little bit of extra warmth in the sun and that slightly longer day, […]
Jaipur Flowers: Signs of Early Autumn at Savista
It is nearing the end of September, the time of year when across Europe and north America the palette of foliage colours is dominated by blazing shades of yellow, gold and red. In otherwise tropical India, too, in those parts of the country that turn temperate around this time more of nature’s colours are coming […]
Jaipur’s Flowering Shrubs:What’s blooming at Savista?
Towards the end of the Rajasthan monsoon, for about three to four weeks, the rains stop abruptly and a fierce heat and humidity set in. The monsoons are not yet over; the final signing off with a few torrential showers accompanied by thunder and lightning is yet to happen – usually by the third week […]
Social responsibility at Savista: Symbiotic living with neighbours
The pictures here are of women from the farming community around us, cutting the tall grass on the Savista grounds overgrown since the last showers. This is grass that the tractor driven lawn mower failed to capture, which happens either because those clumps of grass had […]
Peacocks have finally come to live at Savista!
Two peacocks and two or three peahens have finally taken up residence at Savista – making us very happy – after spending two years prospecting the place and using it as a weekend hideaway! (We had reported on these weekend forays last year in our post https://www.savista.com/monsoon-exuberance-brings-peacocks-to-savista/) The pictures here were taken a few weeks […]
