December 30th, 2011
Civet Home This tree with the tresses is the bhaine tree. They make kallu with it, which is a safe, intoxicant drink. Some nights ago, (my son) Yashas taught me to hold a torch with its base on my forehead, like a miner’s lamp, and look into the plantation. Quite quickly, I caught the first gleaming eyes looking at me from this bhaine. A black creature like a bandicoot; it began to slither down the tree. Then another came after it, and another, and another. Bandicoots up a tree? It turned they were civets. During the day you see their excrement on the tracks in the plantation, which you can tell is theirs because it is full of coffee beans. The beans are special when they are processed like this in the civet’s bowels, and fetch a goodly sum in foreign markets. Civet coffee, selling for the price of wine! $30 a cup!

Civet Home

This tree with the tresses is the bhaine tree. They make kallu with it, which is a safe, intoxicant drink. Some nights ago, (my son) Yashas taught me to hold a torch with its base on my forehead, like a miner’s lamp, and look into the plantation. Quite quickly, I caught the first gleaming eyes looking at me from this bhaine. A black creature like a bandicoot; it began to slither down the tree. Then another came after it, and another, and another. Bandicoots up a tree? It turned they were civets. During the day you see their excrement on the tracks in the plantation, which you can tell is theirs because it is full of coffee beans. The beans are special when they are processed like this in the civet’s bowels, and fetch a goodly sum in foreign markets. Civet coffee, selling for the price of wine! $30 a cup!

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Here are some snapshots from my beat which runs through Bangalore and Malnad and some work-related travel. There is more on my Main Blog.

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