National flowers serve as symbolic representations ... Represents purity and is a symbol of Indonesian national identity. India Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) It symbolises purity, beauty and spiritual ...

The Director of the Nanda Devi National Park of India presented a report on the state of conservation of this World Heritage Area at the Meeting of the South Asian World Natural Heritage Site Managers ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A few years ago I was on an assignment in India. I had a day off, so I went to the Mullick Ghat flower market in Kolkata.