This picture taken a week before the Ganesh Sthapana in Feb 2008 shows plants not more than a foot tall. I have been painstakingly watering and nurturing these for over a year now after the gardner was found absconding for not being paid the maintainance dues for several months by the builder.
When some residents were up in arms against letting these trees grow in this place and wanted them to be uprooted and planted elsewhere, only a timely intervention by me saved the trees from being uprooted in mid-summer and lost for ever.
I remember relocating trees when I lived in Bavdhan. We first made required pits at an alternate location nearby, added rich black soil, added manure, etc. and then proceeded to uproot the existing ones. Homework is a must when one assigns himself a task, especially a destructive one.
Sparrows taught me punctuality. It started one day in early april 2007 when I placed foodgrain and a water bowl in my terrace. Thereafter the sparrows and various other birds have been habitually picking grain and water from my terrace. I am reminded of the supplies being exhausted by their higher pitched chirping in the morning.
Lastly, my half dozen worms whom I handpicked from under the rajaram bridge in Karvenagar in June 2008 have not only survived over the year but have grown in numbers multifold creating rich manure all the while. I have been meticulously seggregating bio-waste from my home during entire last year.
Pune mayor was recently in news for visiting the neighbouring PCMC bio-wate treatment plant with a view to setup a similar facility for Pune. This was in wake of the agitation by residents of Uruli-Kanchan where most of the garbage from city is dumped.
Today I feel proud to be a worthy Puneite for having taken the right steps in the direction of saving our environment from degrading by treating the bio-waste from atleast my house in my backyard.
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