The Great Banyan Tree

In the Indian Botanical Gardens (now extravagantly titled the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden) at Seebpore, across the Hooghly from Calcutta, still standing proudly:

THE GREAT BANYAN TREE...

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And, my first view of it, some 30 years before, in the rains: