Archive for March, 2008

An event to remember

2 days back, I received a call from someone I didn’t know. She asked me whether she could plant a tree on behalf of her friend. This was a difficult question. We have still not setup our office properly (Inauguration day on 7th April, Ugadi). None of the items required were ready (saplings were still [...]


Air conditioner

Trees have different meanings to different people. And there are a few who seem to consider trees as their purpose of existence. One such person is Hyder Ali Khan.
He bends the laws of nature and tames trees. Yet, his respect for the trees is immense. He experiments on trees. He has performed successful surgeries on [...]


Trees and individual interest

There are a thousand different issues in this world which concerns everyone but evokes the response of only a few. Sometimes these issues affect the individual in a noticeable manner yet fail to attract his slightest attention. Loss of trees is one such issue. We are losing trees at the rate of a football field [...]


Groundwork

This is a long post and this describes almost every activity till end of 2007. Since the higher priority in 2007 was the software we worked on, the activities with respect to trees were minimal.
No business plan is done overnight. And with a vague, untried idea of ours, preparing a business plan was all the [...]


Before Sapgreen

June 2nd week 2005. The days at SJCE, Mysore had come to an end. I had finished my greatest objective in life till then which was to become an electronics engineer. Each of my classmates went in different directions albeit within Bangalore. I lived in Bangalore just like most migrants to Bangalore do, with other [...]