The sacks of tamarind she collects, filled with the fruit of these ancient trees, are heavy with possibility. In Binga, a small but bustling town in north-western Zimbabwe, urban buyers and ...

On the last Sunday of 2024, a group of people in Calcutta gathered on the terrace of a two-storeyed house, under the boughs of a tentul gaachh or tamarind tree. The point of the meet was to save the ...

Tamarind is the fibrous, dark brown, gooey pulp that surrounds the seeds (which are inside a knobbly, velvety brown pod) of the tree called tamarindus indica. The English word “tamarind” comes ...