Food, Offering, Medicine, Political Symbol: What the Lotus Means in Sri Lanka
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...
The Mughal Gardens of Kashmir: Tracing the rich histories of these 17th century marvels
Abha Narain Lambah traces the histories of Shalimar and Nishat, Verinag and Achabal, and the magical Pari Mahal in ...