Student, Gardener, Self-employed
Neependra 
Before I share the updates about the on-ground progress, I would like to quickly touch upon the theory session we had earlier. First we looked at examples of ancient natural buildings, which have stood for many centuries. After the invention of portland cement and its variants, we moved away from the natural buildings and it’s good that … Read more
In Oct’24 Krishna Ji and I decided to join the month-long mud house building workshop in March’25 in Himachal. For me the intention was to build a small mud house at Dhanvi after completing it but now it seems it would be more than that. More details about other plans later. In this blog I … Read more
On 15th Feb’25, I along with Kavitha hosted an in-person discussion on AI and its effect of our careers. 7 on us from diverse backgrounds could manage to attend at my home/office. We discussed a wide range of topics like how AI is helping us, challenges it brings, agentic AI, how it is shaping geo-politics, … Read more
After the Art of Hosting training, which happened in Bengaluru Dec’24; it was very important for the new practitioners to practice different learned methods under guidance and to keep the community grow organically. To keep above in mind, Art of Hosting Bengaluru community; under the guidance of Melinda, hosted its first Practice Day on 11th … Read more
In the previous blog I shared my experience and learnings from the first 2 days of the Art of Hosting Training, which I attended in Bengaluru (7-10 Dec’24). This blogs covers the last 2 days of the training. While here, I would like to briefly mention about the diversity of the participants. We had participants … Read more
One great thing leads to another and that is how landed up at the Art of Hosting Training’24 Bengaluru, earlier this month (7-19th Dec’24) . I got its leads from one of the participants of the #Play14 event. After attending the training, it feels as the missing piece of my formal education is now complete. … Read more
Continuing my quest to learn and play more games I ended up attending the #Play14 Bengaluru event last minute between 8th – 10th Nov’24. It turned out to be an awesome break from the tech and other things which keeps me busy. More than 2 days just went like that and I am still missing … Read more
While surfing the internet suddenly an ad popped out about the a conference on Biodynamics. I heard this word for the first time and assumed that it is going to be about some form of mixed cropping. I did not think much and registered for it after looking at the website, as some of the … Read more
Last week (5th – 10th Oct’24) we had heavy rains and winds in and around Bengaluru and both of our farms have some negative impacts. One of the melia dubia tree had fallen in the Dhanvi farm and damaged our trellis structure. After chopping the tree we have kept the wood in open for now. … Read more
From the time I read Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. which is more than 10-12 years before; I was kind of waiting to turn 42 to uncover the eventual answer of why I am doing anything and what difference does it make and to whom? For those who have not read the book … Read more