Before our breakfast at Rabdentse, we had witnessed Pemayangste and Sanga Choling Monastries, in Pelling itself.

Paan has been long used as an item in worship and sacred food prasadam. Betel leaf is a mouth freshner. Meetha Paan is largely popular in North India, Lucknow, Varanasi, Patna.

The small, scented Wall flowers or Erysimum Cheiri, grow very well in Lucknow as winter and spring seasonals.

The three rivers Ganga, Saraswati and Yamuna symbolise Knowledge, Dispassion and Devotion, respectively. Sangam at Prayag is their meeting point. Seekers have travelled to this place for millennia. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar refers to the Kumbh mela as,

Amla nd Tulsi are top immunity booster foods or super foods. Ayurveda was integrated in day to day living by the founders of Ayurveda. A child learns at home and through festivals about food as medicine, which is a basic tenet of Ayurveda. Amla

A traditional family recipe sesame jaggery laddoos are prepared on Diwali and Ekadashi days in winter for bhog for Sri Krishna in my home. White sugar is not a traditional ingredient for bhog or Vaishnav cusine. Jaggery (sugarcane gur), misri,

Bhai Dooj (25 October 2017, Kartik Shukla Dwitiya), a festival for celebrating sibling love. It is said, the Lord of death Yamraj visits his sister River Yamuna Maharani to take her blessing.