City Hangout – Bougainvillea Aesthetics, Barakhamba Road Hangouts by The Delhi Walla - October 25, 2020October 25, 20202 Beauty spots [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It takes a bougainvillea to raise a city. That’s what one feels on witnessing the magical scene of a Connaught Place high-rise emanating from the flower pot of a pink bougainvillea. This illusion is caused by the combined effect of the night, the lights of the street lamps, the long row of the pavement trees, the lit-up building itself and the black starless sky. The bougainvillea pot is placed on the road divider in central Delhi’s Barakhamba Road, and the building is the distinctive Statesman House. The late night sight is incredibly surreal. The entire length of the road divider is in fact decked with pots containing the bougainvilleas. Many are pink, but some