In Bengaluru, 65-year-old Indira Ashok Shah grows 600+ plants — including mangoes in a bucket and coffee — on her terrace, inspired by her grandmother.
“I had almost eleven different varieties of brinjals last year,” she tells me. There’s also lady’s finger, corn, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, snake gourd, beans, different kinds of greens, tomato, five varieties of sweet potato, radish, and turmeric.