Word: neem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face, a rounded skull and oval eyes; sister Subhadra is only 5 ft. high, with a yellow, pinched face that gives her a hungry look. Making a new set of idols to replace the worn-out trio at least once every 25 years is a tricky business. First a neem tree must be found, in which no bird is nesting, and on which no other tree has cast a shadow. It must be marked beneath its bark with the shape of a conch shell and a wheel; holes must be found beneath it to show that snakes have lived there...