Nangarni
What crosses your mind when you picture ploughing? This haunting meditation explores the profound sacrifice embedded in tilling the earth. Imagine enduring relentless cuts from metal blades approaching from every direction, blistering under an unforgiving heat. The soil bears this burden quietly, year after year, so that humans might reap abundant crops and witness fields burst into verdant life. There's quiet nobility in how the ground sustains not just people, but livestock, birds, insects and countless other creatures dependent on its generosity. The author portrays ploughing as something far more poetic: a parched planet gasping for rain, its fissured surface yearning for relief. It's a moment of constraint, of compression, yet paradoxically it becomes the threshold where our world transforms. Before lush vegetation erupts across the landscape, the earth must first endure this intimate violence. A striking reminder that growth demands sacrifice, and that the foundation beneath our feet pays an extraordinary price for civilisation's hunger.
- Author: ANAND YADAV
- Publisher: Mehta Publishing House Pune
- Genre: Agriculture & Farming
- ISBN: 978-8177665178
- Pages: 352 pages