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Meera Sundaram
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Writes about the small disciplines of keeping things alive — plants, habits, and the recipes nobody wrote down. Grew up in Mylapore, gardens on a Bangalore balcony.
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The Tulsi Diaries
How I Killed Six Plants Before My Grandmother's Basil Finally Took Root — A Home Grower's Practical Guide
I have murdered more tulsi plants than I can count on both hands. Overwatered them, underwatered them, left them to fry on a west-facing sill in May, forgot them entirely during a work trip to Pune. My grandmother, meanwhile, grew a tulsi in a cracked mud pot on her Mylapore balcony that outlived two monsoons, a heatwave, and, frankly, her patience with me. This book is what I learned after I finally sat her down with a notebook and made her explain, in her maddeningly unhurried way, exactly what she does. No spiritual lectures, no vague 'give it love' advice — just soil ratios, watering rhythms, pruning habits, and the specific mistakes that kill Ocimum tenuiflorum in Indian homes. Whether you've got a Bangalore balcony, a Delhi terrace baking through June, or one sunny windowsill in a Mumbai flat, this is the practical, occasionally funny, thoroughly tested guide I wish someone had handed me before plant number one.
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