Food, Offering, Medicine, Political Symbol: What the Lotus Means in Sri Lanka
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...
Why Do Flowers Mean So Much to Us?
Icons of beauty, providers of sustenance, even symbols of divinity — blossoming plants have assumed a deep significance to ...
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Out to fetch lotus flowers, 2 minor siblings drown in Bengaluru’s Kengeri lake
Two minor siblings drowned in the Kengeri lake in Bengaluru on Monday evening while attempting to fetch lotus flowers, said the police. The rescue personnel on Tuesday recovered the body of John ...