Indian Garden
A country that grows by monsoon. Curry leaf trees saplinged in a Madurai courtyard, Alphonso mangoes ripening in a Ratnagiri orchard, ridge gourd climbing a Kolkata terrace, methi sown three weeks deep in a Gujarat kitchen plot, ginger rhizomed in Coorg wet ground, turmeric lifted at Diwali, chilies sun-roped along a Karnataka veranda, the kadi patta a neighbour passes over the wall — a garden built on rain, intercropping, and the heat-arc of the May sun.