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In this photograph taken on June 4, 2019, Indian residents walk along a road past the house of the Kesharwani family, which was built around a peepal tree (sacred fig tree), in Jabalpur, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. - When the Kesharwanis wanted to build a bigger house they didn't want to cut down the holy fig tree in the courtyard, so they came up with a novel solution: construct the house around the tree. (Photo by Uma Shankar MISHRA / AFP) (Photo credit should read UMA SHANKAR MISHRA/AFP/Getty Images)

In this photograph taken on June 4, 2019, Indian residents walk along a road past the house of the Kesharwani family, which was built around a peepal tree (sacred fig tree), in Jabalpur, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. - When the Kesharwanis wanted to build a bigger house they didn't want to cut down the holy fig tree in the courtyard, so they came up with a novel solution: construct the house around the tree. (Photo by Uma Shankar MISHRA / AFP)        (Photo credit should read UMA SHANKAR MISHRA/AFP/Getty Images)