The first thing I noticed were the wildflowers in the grass. The grass in Humayun’s tomb complex in Delhi was dotted with ...

My first culinary encounter with sembal dodde – which is what the buds of Bombax ceiba, or silk cotton tree, are called in Khadi Boli spoken in Saharanpur – was one of wonder. It is not so ...

The second edition of the Simolu festival, celebrating the breath-taking beauty of the Bombax ceiba flowers, kicked off on February 15 in Assam's Nagaon district. The two-day-long festival ...