I WANDER by the edgeOf this desolate lakeWhere wind cries in the sedge: Thus starts the opening stanza of William Butler Yeats’s poem, “He Hears the Cry Of The Sedge.” Though the lines carry a melancholic note, sedgelands have a wild and wayward beauty, particularly when in bloom. Now why would the poet use the […]
Category Archives: Eco-restoration
Restoring the Coonoor River, Phase-II
It should be recalled that the middle stream of the Coonoor River, had earlier been cleared of debris by Clean Coonoor, and fenced up through the efforts of ISPRAVA Homes. In keeping with Clean Coonoor’s commitment of cleaning the Coonoor River, operations to clean the Upper Stream will commence on World Rivers Day which falls […]
When Words Fail, Pictures Speak
A few sceptics may ask ; what’s the point in tending to a marsh, why waste precious time and resources on a piece of wasteland. The answer lies in the couple of pictures of a well which draws water from the Yedapalli Marsh near Coonoor, and they speak for themselves. The first shows the well […]
Monsoon Flowering at the Yedapalli Marsh
The words swamp, marsh and bog, often brings to the mind, a detestable picture of a fetid morass with a vast collection of dead and decaying vegetable matter that generate miasma ; fit accommodation only for leeches and other slimy creatures, hordes of pestilential and venomous insects, and of course quartana malaria and brain fevers.This […]