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  I had just opened a pack of vermicompost to feed the plants some manure. These days they seal the ‘kattas’ or bags with an ‘auto stitching machine’. Farrrrrr is how it goes and under a second the bag gets locked and sealed.   Opening such a bag is an art. One has to pull the correct side of the string to remove the thread in one go. You pull it from the wrong side; it becomes a complicated task. The thread was synthetic and very soft and silky but very strong and difficult to break. Having ripped it apart like a professional, I was about to discard it in the dust bin.   A thought occurred. Why not reuse it to tie an adenium seed pod that one had recently harvested. The pod had ‘crackled open’ recently. If it is not tied in time then the dry seeds disperse with the wind. This year one intends to grow adenium seeds and use the seedlings to graft some rosy variety of adenium varieties. Rosy varieties are multi-petal adenium flowers. This thread was ideal for bi...

    I have been quiet on this ongoing war in Iran. The more it prolongs, the more I feel disillusioned about what is in store for the world and us. Those who are fighting are bearing the brunt. Many innocents, who are not fighting/involved are also being bombed to smithereens. Some countries are neutral but are coming to a grinding halt because they are running out of petrol and gas. Thanks to Mr Trump. (Nominee for the ‘Nobel War Prize 2026’).   We claimed victory in the 1971 war, 93,000 prisoners and created a new country. We were victors during Op Kargil & Sindoor. We started rising economically and then we are being thrown over the precipice by the one and only sitting thousands of kilometers away, who has no business to ‘poke his nose’ in other people’s affairs.   It reminds me of a British comedy series called “Mind Your Language” which we used to watch very intently in our childhood. There is now a need to remake another one called “Mind Your Bus...