India, April 5 -- It is the season of lilies of all shades, sizes and surprises. Nothing announces the advent of April better than Easter lilies, bulbs that burst out of hiatus like Bollywood divas making a red-carpet comeback in over-dabbed rouge.

This is also the time when the mango trees start boasting their blossoms of bhur. In the digital age when Tweeple love to show off their baby bumps, Mother Nature quietly goes about her birthing business. April sees the maternity wards of Mother Nature - groves of bhur-laden trees - bearing in the womb the King of Fruits.

The King of Fruits put in a rather early appearance, personally, even before the nukkad pheriwallahs could boast of that burst of gold, or before the brown bags of Blinkit, ...