Category - Plants & People

Plants to dye for…

Image: The Funeral of Raymond Diocrès / Wikipedia We are told that the future’s bright, the future’s orange. If true, that’s rather monochrome, and drab, and sad. So, what better time to celebrate a more colourful – and...

The scented story of rice

A guest post by Debarati Chakraborty The power of aroma compounds to offer physical, mental and spiritual delight is one of the oldest enchanting tales. Aroma stimulates the limbic system, one of the primitive parts of...

Every little helps…

Each year International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March. This year’s theme is “collective individualism – how our individual actions, conversations, behaviours and mind-sets can have an impact on our larger...