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In India’s Thar Desert, trees are raised as family
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In India’s Thar Desert, trees are raised as family
Anni Devi is beaming. At her home in Manafarsar, a village in north-western India’s Thar desert, the 82-year-old welcomes her grandson’s new wife as well as another new member of the household: an 18-inch sapling of jamun, the Indian blackberry. The tree arrives draped in a red veil. The newlyweds carry it to the backyard, pour sacred water into the soil and press it into the sand, as relatives chant and scatter petals. “May you be prosperous an…
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