If you were to visit Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai this month, you’d notice a long, textile hedge stretching across the plaza. Dyed in deep crimsons and earthen tones, block-printed with botanical forms and strange administrative symbols, it hints at scale before it offers explanation. This, you’ll slowly begin to realise, is a fragment of something vast: a 4,000-kilometre-long colonial border that once cut across the Indian subcontinent, built not of stone or brick, but of plants. Thorny, living plants.
26 January 2026
