ABSTRACT
Janaki by this time was on her last leg. She was slowly slipping into dementia and could hardly supervise her last and only doctoral scholar, whose focus was on a cytogenetical survey of the flora of the Silent Valley. Janaki would learn of Darlington’s death six months after he had passed away, in late March 1981; in the ensuing years she would also lose her niece and the only other sibling alive. Edam was on its knees, and on 7 February 1984, at 86, Janaki would be gone for ever.
