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A kingfisher perched on a peepul tree, its red breast like a tongue of fire.

StoPPing peepul from saying what they want is a fundamental Denial of freedom of Speech.

The Mahabodhi temple complex is the site where Buddha is believed to have found enlightenment under a peepul tree, several years after leaving his kingdom and meditating in the forests of Gaya area.

Here are fine specimens of the peepul tree—the sacred tree of India, massive as an English oak—and groves of mangoes.

Under the shade of a peepul, whose heart-shaped leaves sheltered him from the sun, sat a devotee staring fixedly into space with his lustreless eyes.