Monday, October 19, 2009

The natural witness


Hidden in the woods of Forest Campus, R S Puram, is a repository of jungle heritage, discovers Pheroze L. Vincent

Temperature drops as you turn in to Cowley Brown Road. That’s because of the forest campus which, apart from training institutes and a wealth of plants, birds and butterflies, has a botanical garden, a bambusetum (nursery for bamboo plants), th e Fischer Herbarium, and the Gass Forest Museum...

It's a jumble out there!



The annual jumble sale organised by the Vasantha Memorial Trust was a huge success


A 1995 Fiat for Rs. 30,000, scooters for Rs. 4000, Sony music systems for Rs. 1000 and a revolving chair for Rs. 500; the sale had it all in three floors of the school. Thousand of people jostled to get their hands on old dolls and trophies and even an old Mofa circus bike.