The annual picking and collection of the yellow mahua flowers brings entire families out, under the trees. A festive occasion, the gathering of the blossoms holds the promise of a secure future
Saffron farmers in Kashmir are facing a bleak season – an early snowfall, the restrictions imposed after Article 370 was scrapped and a shortage of labourers have hit a trade already in a slump for years
Mahua flowers are an assured source of income for people living near Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. But the green blossoms were fewer this season because of poor rain
A Dalit bank cashier and a Muslim flower seller in Anantapur town in Andhra Pradesh have ensured for years that the statue of their revered leader gets fresh flowers every day
Chandra Subramanian of Sivagangai district – PARI first wrote about her in 2016 – is a farmer, retailer, mother, who received a ‘homepreneur’ award this week. We learn of her new ‘sampangi’ plants and plans
The bustling and colourful Flower Bazaar in Chennai, locally called Pookadai, draws migrants from across the state who came to the city looking for work after the land in their villages stopped yielding returns
The fragrance of jasmine has inspired poems and songs. In Tamil Nadu’s Madurai region, the heartland of that flower, the lives and labour of those who grow it are far from romantic
Caught in a cycle of debt and poverty, Ratnavva Harijan, an expert hand-pollinator in Karnataka's Haveri district, is doing everything she can to educate her children – including taking on casteist customs
In the seven audio songs here, Adivasi girls from a residential school in Farsegarh village of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district sing of trees and fields, friends and families, of dressing up and dancing, and the tricolour
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