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Leaving leaves
Hindustan Times
|March 19, 2025
On the annual cycle of certain city trees
The scene is full of descending motion expressing immense silence (like the snowfall in the Himalayas). A small crowd has gathered, wordlessly watching the surreal phenomenon, here in central Delhi, in a stone courtyard overlooking poet Ghalib's tomb. Hundreds of leaves are drifting down from an enormous pilkhan tree, its branches spread superwide.
This story is from the March 19, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times.
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