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Tuesday September 30th 2008 Here goes September.. in the midst of Ramadan I did not realize its onset.. Let us first understand why I talked about the trees of Rajasthan..& why the Rajas or the rulers planted trees.. Rajasthan and its plains is a sandy desert with River SUTLEJ in the North West and the Aravalli Range in the East; The Indus Valley in the West & The Rann of Kutch in the South. All of this by and large is a semi arid area. Cultivation is done in small patches and irrigations provided by small streams…which originate from Aravalli during the monsoons. There are many salt water lakes in the Eastern side eg the Sambhar Lake on the border of Jaipur. The Aravallis, are one of the oldest FOLD mountain ranges in the world. This range lies parallel to the direction of the south west monsoon winds. The Aravalli Hills are low in height so they are unable to stop the moisture laden winds. This makes Rajasthan a dry area. The perceptive & visionary rulers of Rajasthan wer

Conscious vis a vis Conservation : Damyanti Singh my charming hostess talked fervently, about the trees that she and her family tried to save and conserve some years back: There is this road in Jaipur,called Queen’s Road: It was a beautiful wide avenue with 300 year old huge banyan trees, on either side. {BADU-Pear} called locally. These were planted by the foresighted ancestors ...and were the legacy left for the Jaipurians. These 300 years old Banyan trees provided shade to the traveler and thus formed a divine canopy . They were the home for a millions and a variety of birds: parrot, bulbul,..and even the peacock used to nest here. It was so lovely a road, that it prompted the rulers of Jaipur to take Queen Elizabeth for a delightful buggy ride...in 1960s… There were about fourteen solid Banyan tress on a 3 kilometer road.. During early- Vasundra’s reign, for road-expansion & broadening, these banyan legacies were cut down brutally. The greed for power, popularity, expansion and

Please click on the pictures to enlarge Front Lawn Cacti and Aloe Plant Side Veranda Lawn To Go Green Is Positive The saplings planted today will grow tomorrow. As a consequence it is: Rewarding Satisfying Heartwarming Pleasing Munificent Bountiful..and then wait .. Serenity will be bestowed with patience and persistence.

Look what we have done to our earth... for momentary pleasures and short lived gains.... cutting trees and blasting rocks.. Don't go far -- start with Somaiiguda, Raj Bhavan Road.. 25 years ago just a quiet road with one or two cars mostly Renaults and Fiats, an odd or two ambassadors , men quietly pulling toiling their rickshaws.. Now a double road.. Drastically - widened may be four times.. in the last 25 years. Tress cut brutally cut -- Properties sold to buy diamonds.. or money transferred to USA by affluent NRIs .. Then they come back and live in their flats that they had bought. & What is this flat culture.. ? Again borrowed from the West.. These cars.. and heavy lorries.. the mad rush and honking.. Mother Earth is screaming .. Is any body listening… ? There was this beautiful champa tree (common Farangi Pani) in the vast Back Yard of the old-bungalow I was married into.. When the construction people took it over that is, when my Oh So Good and Saintly Sis in Laws sold th