{"id":869,"date":"2026-03-27T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/2026\/03\/27\/northeast-indias-most-beautiful-tribute-a-butterfly-and-a-bloom-in-zubeen-gargs-honour\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:18:00","slug":"northeast-indias-most-beautiful-tribute-a-butterfly-and-a-bloom-in-zubeen-gargs-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/2026\/03\/27\/northeast-indias-most-beautiful-tribute-a-butterfly-and-a-bloom-in-zubeen-gargs-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast India\u2019s Most Beautiful Tribute: A Butterfly and a Bloom in Zubeen Garg\u2019s Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some farewells don&#8217;t need words &#8211; they need forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tall shrub with bright pink flowers, <em>Osbeckia zubeengargiana<\/em>, now blooms quietly in the grasslands of Manas National Park &#8211; a UNESCO World Heritage Site that seems to have saved a special corner for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miles away in Arunachal Pradesh, a rare butterfly with olive-brown wings and a faint iridescent sheen drifts through forest shadows at around 600 metres above sea level in the Basar region of Leparada district. They call it the \u201cBasar Duke.\u201d Science calls it <em>Euthalia (Limbusa) zubeengargi<\/em> &#8211; a newly discovered species named after legendary Assamese singer and cultural icon Zubeen Garg, marking a rare intersection of science and regional identity and highlighting the rich but underexplored biodiversity of Northeast India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discovery of the butterfly comes just days after the identification of the plant species named in his honour, signalling a growing recognition of regional figures in scientific naming practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reacting to the discovery, his wife Garima Saikia Garg wrote on social media, \u201cLet the child of nature stay blossomed just like in its own mother&#8217;s lap&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First a plant. Then a butterfly. The forests of the Northeast seem to be writing their own tribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some voices don&#8217;t echo &#8211; they bloom and fly. And the man, Zubeen Garg, who was once the sound of Assam itself, now lives quietly in petals and wings, somewhere deep in the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><em>D. Dutta<\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some farewells don&#8217;t need words &#8211; they need forests. A tall shrub with bright pink flowers, Osbeckia zubeengargiana, now blooms quietly in the grasslands of Manas National Park &#8211; a UNESCO World Heritage Site that seems to have saved a special corner for him. Miles away in Arunachal Pradesh, a rare butterfly with olive-brown wings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-main-page","category-north-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}