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:

My Recent Tour of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York City, in 144 Colour Plates

As it's the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' (designed by N. Roerich), here is a virtual tour of  this fine museum dedicated to this mysterious and always interesting artist. I saw many of his paintings in India, but this is the best collection in one place.

George Gershwin grew up on the same Upper West Side street.

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((Photos © as bpb's, not the artworks photographed))