Dear Raman Ji, As long as a tree is old enough to have sufficient padding of dead tissues on its bark, i think, there is no harm in carving out names/design using a penknife, yet i do not support this.
As for intruding privacy i have had the same experience in Shibpur Botanical Garden in 2010, Thank you very much. Regards, Surajit On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:33 PM, raman <[email protected]> wrote: > Suraji ji, > > Related but, a digression. > > Every beautiful tree in Lalbagh, Bangalore, will be occupied by couple, > and always feel from their look that I am intruding their privacy. > > In Lalbagh, there is an autograph tree in the middle of a reasonable > sized lawn. > Initially I wondered why they haven't put a board. > Later realized, people would have broken the branches to get the leaves > and written their names all over the place. > Till now its remain untouched. > > Infact I refrain from telling everybody that its an autograph tree. > Even though I am tempted to tell any kid playing under it, that is an > autograph tree. > > Raman >
