By 5 PM, the banyan tree becomes a living room without walls. Farmers return from fields, women gather with their embroidery, and children kick a torn football. An old transistor radio plays a film song from the 1970s— R.D. Burman’s jazzy notes mixing with the cooing of pigeons.
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Every day, as the harsh Indian sun softens into a honeyed glow, 67-year-old Meena Kumari climbs the stone steps to the banyan tree in the center of her village, Devpura. She carries a small brass lota (pot) of water and a cotton cloth. She pours a ring of water around the tree’s aerial roots, ties the cloth in a simple knot, and closes her eyes. By 5 PM, the banyan tree becomes a living room without walls