Hema Sane, botanist who lived without electricity, died on September 19th

Mongabay
Sep 26, 2025, 2:54 pm302 ptsTop
In a crumbling four-storey wada in Pune’s old quarter, where temple bells compete with motorbike horns and hawkers press against the walls, an upstairs room stayed stubbornly off the grid. There, surrounded by sparrows and squirrels, a small woman in a plain cotton sari wrote longhand by daylight or by the…

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