Citizens give 70-yr-old tree a 2nd shot at life

KOLKATA: A first-of-its-kind collective in the city, formed to protect a tamarind tree planted over 70 years ago by freedom ...
The New Yorker

A Tamarind Tree’s Sweet and Sour Inheritance

Gifts from ancestors take the darndest forms. Mine included a tamarind tree, the tallest and most magnificent in our yard. My grandfather’s grandfather—a tall, corpulent Indian, prone to indulging in ...