Back To Nature

Rediscovering the serene joys of agriculture and rural living.

- Dr. Veena Adige

Are the minds of people changing? We seem to be tired of the fast life, the busy schedule, and the shortage of time for personal work. The evolution of Indians from farmers to businessmen to IT personnel has come a full circle, with some of the modern generation opting for agriculture and farming on a large scale. Even women are taking a great interest in farming, milking cows, planning farm produce, and exporting not only in India but also abroad.

A couple living in the US suddenly decided to come back to India and join the family business of agriculture near Bangalore. They had a successful career in Connecticut, the wife doing beautiful paintings commercially and the husband working in an IT company when the motherland called. They, with a small daughter in tow, left the US to settle down successfully and help in the family business back home. And they have no regrets. When nature calls, there is no option but to follow. The fresh air and sunlight, the solitude, far from the maddening crowds beckon, and many are tempted to join. Another example is of a top executive in a pharmaceutical company, retiring and setting up a farm as a full-time venture, ably and happily supported by his city-bred wife and daughter-in-law.

After a hectic year working round the clock, my daughter and son-inlaw came to India to relax along with their almost college-going daughter and a teenaged son.

They shunned the cities and chose to go to a forty-acre Srinidhi farm near Nashik in Maharashtra.

Indulging In Nature's Beauty