India, March 5 -- Why oh why he never wrote a poem on these two Lodhi Garden trees?
Poet Octavio Paz was a Lodhi Garden loyalist, back in the 1960s when he was posted in our city as Mexico's ambassador. To be fair to him, he did write a poem titled 'In the Lodhi Garden,' but without mentioning the park's magical twins.
This Seeta-aur-Geeta duo bears flowers throughout the year, but the densest blossoming returns punctually with the departure of winter. This afternoon, the tiny pink flowers are freely detaching themselves from the branches, falling on the ground, in slow motion. The flowers smell of. nothing. (Technically speaking, these aren't flowers, but leaves. )
Whatever, the scentless "leaves" are beginning to bloom across the city....