'She moved me': the UK dancers inspired by India's 112-year-old environmentalist
Saalumarada Thimmakka's story of planting banyan trees led to a determined quest to find her, and a show about her life When she was a teenage girl, Saalumarada Thimmakka planted her first banyan tree just outside the remote Indian village of Hulikal, in the southwestern state of Karnataka. She had married young, as was the custom, but had not fallen pregnant. Local folklore said that if a childless woman planted a b…