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Mango Nation; On India's Favorite Fruit
Mango Nation; On India's Favorite Fruit
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Mango Nation; On India's Favorite Fruit

Mango Nation; On India's Favorite Fruit

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"The mango truly is a natural obsession, like cricket or Bollywood or politics. Every Indian is an expert on the mango. Perhaps there's no other country in the world which has a comparable relationship with a fruit. But the excitement of the mango doesn't come from the fruit. It's an ancient thing and the reason the mango is so central to all matters of culture is because settlements across most of India had mango groves close by. They were not planted just for fruit. Fruit was one of the benefits. Primarily, the mango grove was infrastructure. It was where all manner of communal activities happened. That's the reason the mango was central. In India's many calendars, spring was the beginning of the new year and the mango was central to all spring festivals too. That's the reason it is so deeply enmeshed in our psyche. Because we've become deracinated and lost connection with all that, now the only discussion is about the fruit" - Sopan Joshi, author, Mangifera Indica; A Biography of the Mango talks to Manjula Narayan about everything from the loss of mango groves to creating flour from mango kernels, and Jesuit and Mughal experiments in horticulture.

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41: Books and Authors with Ananth Krishnan, author of India's China Challenge। Part-II

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41: Books and Authors with Ananth Krishnan, author of India's China Challenge। Part-I

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40: Books & Authors with RK Raghavan author of A Road Well Travelled; An Autobiography। Part-II

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40: Books & Authors with RK Raghavan author of A Road Well Travelled; An Autobiography। Part-I

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39: Heart-to-heart with Manjiri Indurkar, author of 'It's All In Your Head, M'। Part-I

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38: Chetan Bhagat on his book 'One Arranged Murder' | Part-2

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37: Chetan Bhagat on his book 'One Arranged Murder' | Part-1

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