Aghanashini

Watched the Aghanashini documentary and learned many things that I did not know before.

The documentary is from the point of the view of the river herself and is well made. Here is an article that covers all the information in the documentary.

• For the first time, I learned of the fruit Uppage - Garcinia gummi-gutta that is grown in the forests and harvested during the monsoon.
• Learned that during the post monsoon flooding, bioluminiscent fungi grown on rotten wood in the forests along the river. It is still unclear how wide spread it is although it seems to have gotten the attention of wildlife photographers recently. Here is a blog post discussing it.
• The fertile Aghanashini river delta, with its fertile yet brackish mangrove floodplains produce a unique variety of rice. Kagga rice grows in brackish water, the cultivation of which is slowly declining.

I would like to try this variety of rice and the Uppage sometime. I also somehow like the name AGhanaShiNi.

tags: #nature #india #documentary