India, April 3 -- The park around the lake in Hauz Khas Village is full of trees. This evening, however, the picnicking people are more taken in by the sunset hues. The lake's smelly water is aflame with the twilight's colour, and no one is looking up at the unusual colours of tree leaves.
The park is studded with scores of pilkhan. Currently, the leaves of most of these trees are in their customary green-though the green is looking fresh, as if newly minted. But the leaves of some of the pilkhans are in shades of bronze.
Pilkhan's old leaves start to fall off during the end of Delhi winters. New leaves come up within weeks. They are born purple. The purple soon transmutes to red. The red transmutes into varieties of russet and bronze, wh...