New Delhi, Jan. 19 -- I am writing this column in Coonoor. I'm sitting on the front lawn of award-winning designer Pavitra Rajaram and her husband Paul Abraham's home. It is a beautifully sunny temperate day. There are bushes of hydrangeas and roses, poinsettias unbridled by pots, jacaranda and just a general cornucopia of green-an ensemble that feels like the perfect balance of English-cottage life and Indian tropicality. Rajaram's home is the embodiment of her. It is the home of a decorator-she is the former creative head of Good Earth-so of course this domestic tableau is a perfectly balanced combination of objects and colours. But what I particularly love about it is that there's little that's trendy about it. Rajaram loves botanicals...