Meghalaya and Living Root Bridges – Lessons from the Cleanest Place in India

“Can we visit one of the living root bridges?” asked my aunt, before planning a visit to Guwahati. Tribes in the Khasi hills of Meghalaya that border Assam have been using the adventitious roots of the native Ficus plants to create organic, natural, zero-waste constructions that are now popularly known as living root bridges. They…