Flowering time in Rajasthan

There was once a time when it was the flowers that decided the borders of kingdoms. Even the mighty had to bow before the will of nature.

Where the amla put forward its greeny-gold blossoms the land belonged to ancient Mewar.

But where the babool, the local kikar, raised its thorny branches, with its bright yellow flowers round and soft as little balls of cotton set amidst its tiny leaves, the land was most certainly claimed by death itself...the ancient kingdom of Maroo or Marwar.

As the old saying goes:

Aonla Aonla Mewar
Babool Babool Marwar