Mother Earth, Sister Seed: Travels through India's Farmlands
Lathika George ventures across India's diverse agricultural heartlands to witness how tradition collides with progress. As a landscape designer with deep roots in organic cultivation, she documents the complex legacy of modernisation on rural communities, revealing both its promise and its perils. Her journey sweeps from the coastal temples of Tamil Nadu through the misty plantations of Karnataka, climbing eventually to the windswept Meghalayan plateaus and the terraced slopes of Himachal Pradesh. What emerges is something far richer than a travel account. George captures the seasonal rhythms that have sustained generations, the stories woven into harvest celebrations, the recipes passed down through families. Yet beneath this celebration lies an urgent reckoning. The farmers, fishers and forest dwellers who shaped India's food systems are vanishing into history. Their knowledge, once considered common sense, now feels precious and precarious. This book refuses nostalgia, instead offering something more valuable: a clear-eyed portrait of lives being transformed, sometimes lost entirely. It's a reminder that every meal carries within it the hands and hearts of people we rarely see or thank.
- Author: unknown
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Travel Writing & Guides
- ISBN: 978-0143428213
- Pages: 296 pages