The story of a poor woman who planted 384 banyan trees along a highway and then….
On a dusty stretch of highway in Karnataka, the surprise is not the traffic but the shade. Banyan after banyan rises on the roadside like a green procession, turning an ordinary route between Hulikal and Kudur into something closer to a living memorial. The story behind it belongs to Saalumarada Thimmakka, a woman whose name…
