lotus

"People in my village use the petals of lotus flowers for religious offerings. But their stems often go to waste and that's what I wanted to change and thought of doing something sustainable," she says.

The event is timed with the blooming of the lake’s iconic lotus flowers, which was once the largest outside Asia.

It is punctuated by archways and windows inspired by the curves and points of a lotus flower — the flower that by lore grows out of the mud.

It features stylised lotus flowerheads and leaf scrolls with red flower motifs against a white background.

She also excavated a few gems, including a star sapphire ring that belonged to her late father and an inexpensive metal lotus bowl that I had loved, deformed but still somehow itself.