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Sojourns in India

Celebration, life,

friends, bonsai!

By Solita Rosade, USA
Photos courtesy Chase Rosade and the Banyan Bonsai Club, Vadodara, India.

Top; Bonsai display in the Surya
Palace Hotel lobby welcomed
guests to the All India Bonsai
Convention.
Insets; dancers at the
extraordinary Opening
Ceremony performed
colorful and unique dances
incorporating cultural and
artistic aspects of India.

s a new year begins, Chase and I enjoy the sweets! We forgot the tiring 30-plus-hour journey
looking back at the great times spent from New York to Vadodara!
with our dear bonsai friends around the In this magnificent country, guests are treated like
world. What a privilege and a delight it is royalty, and the large group of us certainly felt it. The
Ato know that the bonsai people we meet event lasted three days with participants enjoying a
become members of our family, and no matter where great educational program, lunching together every-
we go, we find more people joining the practice of day, and sharing wonderful friendship. It was orga-
bonsai, strengthening the Bonsai Family of the World. nized, funded and sponsored by a small bonsai group,
Our last bonsai trip of 2015 was to return to India to the Banyan Bonsai Club of Vadodara, currently led
attend the All India Bonsai Convention in Vadodara, by Mrs. Chanda Agrawal and attended by over 230
in November. The first of our many pleasant surprises bonsai lovers.
was arriving at the Surya Palace Hotel and climbing to The Opening Ceremony to the All India Bonsai
the top of the stairs where a magnificent reception by Convention was, without doubt, magnificent, colorful
the beautiful group of Indian friends awaited us. The and unique. It incorporated many cultural and artis-
girls dressed in their colorful saris, the men in their tic aspects of India. Upon completion, Mrs. Chanda
bright shirts, the smiles, the flowers, the music, and Agrawal asked Solita Rosade to cut the ribbon for the

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