So as Ralph Waldo Emerson says “The Earth laughs in flowers”, a glimpse of Kaas might make you believe it is ROFLing with glee. (For those not familiar with the word, it means- rolling on the floor laughing). It is also known as Kaas Pathar, mainly because it is otherwise barren because of porous laterite […]

“I will lift mine eyes unto the Hills from whence cometh my help.”   I traced the words inscribed on the stone memorial. Beyond the white monument to the late botanist Margaret Legge, flowers spread away in all directions, a riot of colours that swayed slowly in the wind coming down from the mountain slopes. […]