Recently I was in Jaypore ( not Jaipur the capital of Rajasthan) , Jaypore is in Koraput district Orissa. I was there with some work at judicial court. I reached there early at 9 am as the working hours starts in Indian offices at 10 morning. But there the seen was very interesting, a large gathering of people were there before I reach there. They were sitting under a huge banyan tree in front of the court and enjoying the shade by sipping tea and having snacks ( idly and chatni). Really tree is very huge and covering about 2000 square feet. A platform is made around it with arrangements to sit.
As in my home state Kerala , there I had not seen such huge banyan trees,except in road sides, which were also not so huge I have seen here. But I heard from my father that , at Adayar in Chennai, there is a huge banyan tree which cover a area of about one kilo-meter.
Someone , who was with me to assist in court work said me that they are taking medicated oxygen, because in early morning hours it release a large amount of oxygen that have such a curative power even help to get cured from TB. I don’t know is it true or not. May it be also a “satta”(Hindi word, meaning Guess)
Whatever, here I would like to tell here something about the importance of Banyan tree to Indians.
