Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Mithila Mango

You have surely read it as Mihtila Mango (Demand for Mithila-from GOI) as i am always writing for Mithila State and now  anybody to reply me will have also to add mithila in my new id (which in effect will give you a bonus 'punya 'than writing my title 'thakur'  though it  meant for Raja Ramchandra- in whole Bengal and adjoining areas like at my home town, Forbesganj too Ram-Janki  Mandir is called Thakurwadi but it  has an ubiquitous meaning used by many castes  in Mithila though  Maharajas of Mithila Mahesh Thakur to start with was a Thakur like Jyotitishwar and Vidyapati)but here I meant from MITHILA MANGO  posting after a good reading on AAM, the fruit.

MITHILAMIND should keep Mithila aam too in among Mithila  dishes.

Anyway we can also demand Mithila for preservation and export of mango to foreign countries- air cargo will  always be booked full - remember Kathalbari's kathi  garis(bullock carts), maybe century before there may be gachhi of Kathars (jack fruits). 

Mithila can sustain itself only on its aams  too ( many have suspicion on its sustainability)  like on it paan and meen(fish) and makhan..if properly grown and food processing units are established- even many  aam(common people) thrives on aam(mango) in its season ,if not have daam(money) to purchase other things  when they have  to sell aam(mangoes) to middlemen in very cheap rate( as transportation is poor!)

I am not able to go to my village for many years though crossed through  side Madhubani-Sakri Road where I had myself planted  some 30 trees of mangos(kalams purchased from Rahmganj behind Naka no.6 of Darbhanga) when I was a  High School student- Bambai,the earliest crop,Maldah, the tastiest crop, Kalkatiya, the last crop and sweetest to me looked  a Jarda though I had not asked  for that to the nursey but  maybe in confusion it wasgiven, a 'fruitful' error, a good fruit yielding varity as a blessing un disguise (it is a mango type not of tobacco but its  pale colour of 'gudda' will  look you to unripe but when you will eat you will feel deliciousness superb) and likewise one Kalam turned to a Beeju(I am not talking about the President Kalam who is now made a biju being superceded by a patia made of grass...

Mango,the king of fruits evolved from north-eastern region of India as per the below  description in the book and Akbar's 100 thousand mango trees's grafts may be still in Mithila(Darbhanga and adjoning area) which was in the east upto Malda(WB) in the historical times.

MITHILA MANGO will mean in Hindi Demand Mithila (state we are demanding out of BIhar)

But at Jamshedur in Jharkhand, MANGO is a locality, pronounced as MAANGO; I have been there many times but did not enquire as to how people understand both differently when written in English(by  context probably).
Arundhati Thakur(which must jhaveread totle as MAANGO may reply who is always putting several interesting information, dughter of a resident from western fring of Mithila(of Champaran)now from Jamshedpur shifted to NOIDA in a mamangement school to study. I had been guest  of her  family in  the area of Mango this year.
Dhanakar

Davidar's 'The House of Blue Mangoes' and my Cuban Mango Batido
By Mathy Kandasamy
Never one to do things by halves, he had ordered an army of malis to raise an orchard of a hundred thousand trees in Darbhanga. Even more dedicated to the cause of the fruit was Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow who was feted throughout ...
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David Davidar's 'The House of Blue Mangoes' and my Cuban Mango BatidoPosted by Mathy Kandasamy |


He learnt that Mangifera indica, to give its proper name, had evolved somewhere in the mysterous northeastern corner of the country over two thousand years before, and had been spread by travellers and other carriers throughout Southeast Asia, China and the Malay Archipalago. Greedy Portuguese traders and adventurers were the first pale skins to encounter it in the early years of sixteenth century. Immiediatly falling under its spell, they had introduced the fruit to Africa and South America. About the same time, it had travelled by another route to the West Indies, the Philippines and thence to Mexico. In the nineteenth century, it had appeared in the orchards of California, Florida and Hawaii.

Everywhere they traveled, there were fascinating stories about the fruit, a delicacy so prized among the connosseurs that it drove its admirers to all sorts of excess. The Mughal emperor Akbar's romance with the mango made even the Dorais' obsession with it pale in comparison. Never one to do things by halves, he had ordered an army of malis to raise an orchard of a hundred thousand trees in Darbhanga.

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