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Something funny. 

Kindly see the stunned faces looking upwards . . . Shalom and Charis has seen something unusual. 

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Their dad had climbed a tree to pluck a guava . . . It was later only I realised that they've never seen any guy, leave alone their father, doing this. 

(Photographs: Courtesy: Fr. Regi Pymattam, CMF)

Winter Snaps . . . The trees

We've some really old trees within the campus. After the snaps of the campus and later those of the pond, this is the last series of snaps of fog in NJH.

Winter Snaps . . . The Pond

The pond within the campus is one of the most underused spots. The fog in the campus gave a very ethereal look to the pond and its surroundings. Snaps of the same . . .

Winter Snaps . . . NJH Campus

Yesterday, we had more fog in the campus. And I got some very beautiful photographs . . .

The path to the main road

One of the paths to the staff homes . . .

The path to the main road (2)

The nursing school hostel and the nursing staff hostel (farther) on the right

The burns unit

The front of the hospital

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The path from the main road to the  church

The main banglaow . .  the present guest room cum mess complex

The Community Health office on the right

The view of the church . . .

The back view of the church . . . from the generator room

Cold . . . Wreaking havoc

Many of us think that it’s only drought that destroy agricultural crops. A downside of the very harsh winter which also brings about beautiful scenes of nature is the havoc it wrecks on agriculture. 

Kindly see the following snaps.

This is potato crop which has been destroyed because of extreme cold in villages around NJH.

Below is the very small potatoes which have been dug up from the destroyed crop.

However, there are crops which does not get much affected like green peas, cabbage.

Another way to prevent such sort of damage is to do inter-cropping like the snap given below. If you look carefully, you can see tomato, potato, brinjal and mustard in the same vegetable patch.

We hope that the temperatures would not go down any further . . .  However, the farmers tell us that it is not about the temperatures going down . . . rather, it is the severe fluctuations in the temperature that is causing all the damage . . .

That's climate change for you . . .