Everyone is familiar with water lilies; they have round, floating leaves (lily pads) and elegant flowers. They are admired by most people and appreciated by small creatures such as damselflies and ...

Kottayam has turned pink. Its tranquil paddy fields are blanketed with bright pink water lilies, their waxy, disc-like leaves spread over the water. Water lilies have bloomed over 600-650 acres of ...

The paddy fields in Thiruvarpu village in Kerala's Kottayam have turned a luscious pink carpet with the blooming of pink water lilies creating a mesmerizing sight. Every year in August, the paddy ...

Khanh Phan’s aerial capture of two women in conical hats harvesting pink water lilies in the Mekong Delta has won an international prize. The stunning capture won the most voted photo award at the ...

Nongkhai has launched Wang Bua Daeng, a reservoir of pink water lilies, as its new attraction. Located in Muang district, the pond is large -- 4,768 rai -- of which about 2,000 features flowers in ...

The pink vista that covers the backwater villages of Kottayam every monsoon is now going online. With just a few weeks left for the water lily blooms to fade, the tourism authorities are now capturing ...

Monsoon is a busy season in Malarikkal, a quaint little village in Kerala’s Kottayam, where acres of paddy fields magically mutate into a sea of pink water lilies in full bloom, bringing in tourists ...

To think, the course of modern art could have been so different if the council bureaucrats had got their way. Monet had moved with his family to the commune of Giverny, 50 miles west of Paris, in 1883 ...