Fragrance Walk and the Botany of Prophecies
Sat, 06 Jun
|Lalbagh Botanical Garden
This curated route is about the various human practices & rituals using botany with the purpose to gain divine insight or predict future events.
Time & Location
06 Jun 2026, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Mavalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560004, India
About the event
Botany of Prophecies is a walk about the history of paper as used to record prophecies and fortune-telling. Since antiquity Homo sapiens have found means and ways to access magic through botany, this walk is a curious inquiry into those practices.
Apart from food, medicine, tools, and intoxication, is it said the plant kingdom can harness and access magic realm for humans. This walk explores human practices that claim to harness the oracular power of botany and produce divine insight.
One of these systems claims to have recorded the life history of every human; recorded on palm leaves. Through your fingerprint, experts pull out relevant palm leaves that predict
These walks are one of many designed to erase tree blindness and introduce Lal Bagh's tree diversity.
ABOUT ME
My name is Abhishek Khan. I am a research based artist, designer, and storyteller under the pen name: Hand Jobs Inc. As a designer I have designed the brand identity for General Items
I started Lalbagh.info website as a free public archive of Lal Bagh flowers. The website now hosts Flower Finder, and self-guided Fragrance Walk.
You can also subscribe to my Flower Calendar via Google Calendar here.
This is my botanical storytelling project and has been featured in
I have conducted walks in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Vancouver. I have researched, written and performed scripts like
- Fragrance Walk & the Botany of Alcohol
- Fragrance Walk & the Botany of Psychedelics
- Fragrance Walk & the Botany of Lovemaking
- Mafia of House Plants
INSTRUCTIONS
- Please arrive by 3:55 apm
- Garden has parking only at Nursery Gate / East Gate / Double Road Gate. Please arrive earlier for parking and walking to gate from parking lot.
Suggested Carry Materials
- Refillable Water Bottle (no single use plastic)
- Sun hat
- Sunglasses
- Handkerchief
- Small Basket to collect flowers/ botanicals (optional)
- Snack (optional)
- If you happen to be late, WhatsApp me for live location. No calls, as I would be amidst a very dramatic tale.
REFUND POLICY
No refunds. Unused tickets are redeemable for any future walks of the same value.
