Iagodul Kareem Essay

Literature Review

Abdul Kareem: a seed sent from heaven

‘It is dark at noon. A thick, wet leaf pile squelches underfoot. Often the way is blocked and one must crawl under branches or take Detours. The silence forest is sometimes unnerving. Every now and then you are lost and can’t tell the way.

Abdul kareem, in front you, wends and weaves through the thicket with a proud case but then he has been around year impact for 25 years. He has seen the 32 acres of a lateritic hillside grow in to this wild forest. He had simply dreamt it, willed it, kept vigil stood guard, ran a few errands-and the forest happened. And is still happening, it’s a work in progress. Abdul kareem as creating saved forever a piece of wilderness for India”.

The pull of kaavu: Abdul kareem is one of Indian midnight children. He was born in 1947 at Nileswar,a small town on the NH7between Kasaragodu and Payyanur in Kerala. His father Abdullah was a small business man. After passing his high school and a year in college, Kareem decided to venture out to India’s Big Apple-Bombay. He worked in a private dockyard as a laborer to learn the ropes. Just when he thought he had found himself a vocation, he was shaken by parochial riots in 1969. Back in Nileswar he thought himself book keeping, type wring with

And the nature sent him feedback. In the third year, when my plantation was but of young adult trees, the water level in the well rose!’ he says. That itself seemed an end for me and I began to plant the whole extent in frenzy. He chooses a variety of plants flucked from the wild and let nature do the rest. He learnt that, “you enable nature, not direct it”. Birds began to arrive and discharge all manners of seeds. Weeds grew and admist then rare herbs and medicinal plants –non chosen ‘by Kareem. Water level in kaliyanam, varranjnyur and other villages within a 10 km radius rose. The once barren hill was now a water