Version en français plus bas Ankit shared with me yesterday a tale of bygone years when the first hippies in Goa orchestrated ecstatic dances beneath the colossal canopy of a sacred tree. These blissful but unknowing souls sought to create space for their ritual, systematically cutting what they deemed as branches from the enormous tree that graciously sheltered them. Picture a colossus balancing on a matchstick. Can you fathom the stability? Indeed, as any clear-minded individual could foresee, except for these organic-gurus, with the onset of the monsoon’s first rains, the giant toppled, leaving the local population bewildered and disheartened. The Banyan, also known as Ficus benghalensis, is a sacred…