Nestled within the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur, Howrah, near the bustling city of Kolkata, stands an extraordinary spectacle – The Great Banyan Tree.

It was left to some breakthrough research at Calcutta Botanical Gardens — led by its Danish-origin head ... Thomas and Company, the first company to conduct an auction of Indian tea in Kolkata. The ...