I went to Lalbagh this morinng, and near the Siddapura gate, Colville’s Glory is in bloom now:
And all over, not just in Lalbagh, the African Tulip (Spathodea) is in full bloom:
All of us know about the serial flowering of the avenue trees of Bangalore, that was introduced by
…and many of us can’t help wishing that we had him now, when the BBMP doesn’t want to plant trees but chop them for development!
For more on the common flowering trees here, see
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City of Women is an upcoming podcast about how women in the city explores the calculated strategies, the backdoor negotiations and the sometimes absurd lengths women go to have fun and feel free in their city. Every Indian woman knows that being out in the city comes with rules - rules that determine who gets to be where and what you can and can’t do. But this show is not about those rules. It’s about how they get broken, bent, and jumped over when women decide to do things just for themselves. City of Women is fun, complex, and a…