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Book on kurinji

ONCE IN 12 YEARS:  KURINJI, the flower of the blue mountains

Book on the fabled kurinji that blooms once in 12 years and the kurinji lore, illustrated by more than 25 high quality colour photos. Kurinji and its romance, the vast expanse of grasslands carpeted by flowers, at Munnar and Ootty fascinate many. Written by Roy Mathew, former Deputy Editor of The Hindu, who speicalised in environmental reporting. Scientific article by Dr. Jafar Palot of Zoological Survey of India on animal life in Shola forests. P. K. Uthaman writes on how flowering of kurinji came to be recorded from the British days to the present.

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The term kurinji denotes the plant and the hilly backwoods in ancient literature.

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