Coffee Grounds Journal

28.05.2024

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This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from store.blackbazacoffee.com (the “Site”). Personal information we collectWhen you visit…

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28.05.2024

Shipping Policy

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12.05.2024

Terms & Conditions

Welcome to Black Baza Coffee Pvt. Ltd. These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Black Baza Coffee Pvt. Ltd.'s Website and Services. By accessing…

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15.04.2024

Careers

If you are passionate about coffee, nature conservation and producer livelihoods, enjoy working collaboratively with farming communities and urban consumers, and are enthusiastic about shaping our unique business model, then…

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05.04.2024

Why monitor bird diversity?

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23.08.2023

This bag is food for soil bacteria.

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15.03.2023

Caring for your Khadi Coffee Filter

It's no surprise that our khadi cloth filters have a dedicated fan base! They produce a richer brew than conventional paper filters and can be used hundreds of times before…

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13.10.2022

Notes from the Field

October 2022

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01.04.2022

March 2022

Field Notes from March 2022

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30.09.2021

A Decade in Coffee

Testing camera traps at a partner coffee farm and measuring shade canopy cover. Monsoon in Coorg meant leech socks and gumboots and I got these from a tiny shop in Gonikoppal (circa 2011).

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28.05.2021

Grateful for the Coffee

Chenthil Mohan finds redemption in an espresso shot.

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05.06.2020

Escaping warped time

Most days I find myself sitting at my work desk, laptop open, scribble pad within reach, drifting off to another time and place. I’ve been daydreaming the way I did in school, of silly and trivial things, things that make me happy.

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28.05.2020

Coffee Math

Verse by Dhruv Sehgal. Dhruv Sehgal is an actor and writer known for his work in Filter Copy and Little Things. And a lover of coffee.

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26.05.2020

Coffee and the chasm of Sustainability

My French Press had developed a crack, so I was back to drinking tea, until recently, when I fixed it. It got me thinking about a lot of things — especially ‘time’ & ‘consumption’.

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20.05.2020

Tigers, Tattoos & Black Coffee

I’m a tattoo artist, a barista, and owner of Tiger Way Coffee, currently locked down in Nagpur.

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15.05.2020

Coffee on Fridays

Disha Mullick braves a heavy Friday and finds solace in a cup.

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09.05.2020

A Quarantine To-Do List of 5

Mounica Tata of @doodleodrama reveals where she prefers to have her coffee in her lockdown dairy.

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06.05.2020

A Coffee Story from the Central Himalayas

Chicu Lokgariwar faces the lockdown in the Himalayas that includes a minor tussle over coffee with a mouse. Read on…

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31.10.2019

A fellow Acumen Fellow visits HQ…

In which I hand over my company, daily grind and all, to an almost stranger and survive to probably do it all again!

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12.09.2019

The Baza is our ultimate superhero!

Where we convince you about the coolness of Aviceda leuphotes…

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19.02.2019

Writing & Resources

Some peer-reviewed publications and popular articles by folks at Black Baza Coffee…

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18.09.2018

I take my phone to the field — Part I

A technology student’s view of small creatures that crawl into dark places.

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10.08.2018

We grow coffee but don’t want to drink it.

Lamenting the indisputable popularity of tea in BR Hills — even amongst the most enthusiastic coffee producers.

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02.02.2018

Spare some decoction for me

For a different kind of a caffeine fix

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19.12.2017

Not-an-ape, and other notes from a biodiversity noob

I was about to be taught a lesson or seven. And how.

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13.11.2017

From pondering to coffee procurement — navigating self-doubt, power and people’s desires in BRT

The second episode of Coffee Grounds is a chronicle of coffee procurement from podu to podu in BR Hills — both of the activity itself and conversations around market control, equality, and trading fairly that lie underneath this activity in a new coffee-producing landscape.

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16.10.2017

Yerakanagadde (BRT Local)

The first edition of Coffee Grounds takes you through Yerakanagadde, or the more pronounce-ably known BRT Local

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06.10.2017

The first man to grow coffee

The first episode of Coffee Grounds is a despatch from the village of Yerakanagadde, nestled in the Biligirirangana Hills in southern Karnataka. It is part of a small cluster of resettled communities…

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Shipping Policy

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Careers

Privacy Policy

Shipping Policy

Terms & Conditions

Careers

Why monitor bird diversity?

This bag is food for soil bacteria.

Caring for your Khadi Coffee Filter

Notes from the Field

March 2022

A Decade in Coffee

Grateful for the Coffee

Escaping warped time

Coffee Math

Coffee and the chasm of Sustainability

Tigers, Tattoos & Black Coffee

Coffee on Fridays

A Quarantine To-Do List of 5

A Coffee Story from the Central Himalayas

A fellow Acumen Fellow visits HQ…

The Baza is our ultimate superhero!

Writing & Resources

I take my phone to the field — Part I

We grow coffee but don’t want to drink it.

Spare some decoction for me

Not-an-ape, and other notes from a biodiversity noob

From pondering to coffee procurement — navigating self-doubt, power and people’s desires in BRT

Yerakanagadde (BRT Local)

The first man to grow coffee

1000 Year Brew

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