This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A few years ago I was on an assignment in India. I had a day off, so I went to the Mullick Ghat flower market in Kolkata.

Prolonged days of cloud cover and foggy mornings and evenings have resulted in stunted growth and discolouration of the flowers. The city gets most of its roses from West and East Midnapore, apart ...

The venue was new and the dates coincided with Saraswati puja, but it all worked out in favour of Bidhannagar Horticultural ...

Organised by Pushpa Bitan Friendship Society and Alka Jalan Foundation, the exhibition celebrated cinema through floral art ...

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But what is common in all of them are flowers and floral décors, The FICCI FLO Kolkata recently organised a members-only workshop at Kolkata Centre for Creativity called ‘Melting Petals ...