An Indira Nagar resident with a hard-to-miss commitment to practising sustainability, a tree watcher and nurturer C. Namachivayam delights in maps, essentially quickly scrawled sketches. If it were possible to converse entirely in maps, he would choose “Mapish” over English. He is given to flagging problems in the delivery of civic amenities by government line agencies. Whenever he brings up a civic issue, he invariably surfaces a map pinpointing it. The location with the exact spot where the “wound” is found suppurating and its precincts would all be mapped out. For once, he is preparing an “upbeat” map, a tree map for the famous Indira Nagar park on Indira Nagar Fourth Cross Street together with an “arbor” of like-minded residents delighting in the park and its trees.
Indira Nagar residents are in the process of creating a tree map for a famous park in their neighbourhood. As part of the exercise, they are seeking to have a nameboard for each tree. The image was taken on November 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: PRINCE FREDERICK
Namachivayam has drawn up a rough map, a pen sketch, with the trees located on it and named. The park is circular; it “hangs out” with two streets — Indira Nagar Fourth Cross Street and Indira Nagar Sixth Lane — which curve sufficiently to give the park its rotund shape. From the rough, partial drawing of the park with a listing of the trees by their names, one can see that if this tree list was run through the Simpson Reciprocal Index, it would return a high value, indicating a diversity of tree species.
