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Date: 28/12/2025
The Avenue of the Baobabs stands in western Madagascar, quiet and unapologetic.
These trees were already old when borders were being drawn elsewhere.
Locals don’t decorate them.
They don’t rename them.
They simply live alongside them.
Each baobab holds centuries of droughts, storms, and survival without complaint.
No fence separates people from them.
What the people of Madagascar are proud of here is continuity.
Nothing was replaced. Nothing rushed.
The avenue reminds visitors that progress is not always about building higher.
Sometimes it’s about standing still — and lasting.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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