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  2. Van Mahotsav - Wikipedia

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    Van Mahothsavlit. ' Forest festival ', is an annual one-week tree-planting festival in India which is celebrated in the first week of July. It is a great traditional Indian festival that reflects Indian culture and heritage to honor and love mother earth by planting trees, by creating awareness of nature's beauty, and by fostering an environment to promote the concept of reduce, reuse, and ...

  3. Jadav Payeng - Wikipedia

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    Jadav "Molai" Payeng (born 31 October 1959) is an environmental activist [1] and forestry worker from Majuli, [2] popularly known as the Forest Man of India. [3] [4] Over the course of several decades, he has planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve.

  4. Saalumarada Thimmakka - Wikipedia

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    The couple could not have children. It is said that Thimmakka started to plant banyan trees in lieu of children. [11] The name word Saalumarada (row of trees in the Kannada language) is how she is referred to because of her work. Thimmakka has a foster son named Umesh. [12] Trees planted by Salumarada Thimmakka along SH94 from Hulikal to Kuduru ...

  5. Social forestry in India - Wikipedia

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    A tradition of growing trees on farmland already existed in many areas, and was the main thrust of most of India's social forestry projects. In addition to providing fuelwood, farmers often grow trees to provide shade for agricultural crops , as wind shelters, for soil conservation or to recover wasteland.

  6. Shanti Mantras - Wikipedia

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    The translation and meaning of the Mantra can be understood when the context in which the Mantra is quoted in the Upanishad is known. Prior understanding of Vedanta is essential for translation and explanation of these Mantra. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad explains Consciousness and it in this context that this Shanti Mantra needs to be understood.

  7. List of plants used in Indian cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Indian vegetable markets and grocery stores get their wholesale supplies from suppliers belonging to various regions/ethnicities from all over India and elsewhere, and the food suppliers/packagers mostly use sub-ethnic, region-specific item/ingredient names on the respective signs/labels used to identify specific vegetables, fruits, grains and ...

  8. Hindi Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Many Hindi speakers with Internet use English Wikipedia instead. Given the great geographic spread of the Hindi language, the contributors to the Hindi project live in various areas around the country. There are also prolific users whose native language is not Hindi, as Hindi is a government language in India alongside English.

  9. Ṛtusaṃhāra - Wikipedia

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    A new pleasure sprouts on the Kadamba trees, and every branch shakes in a gaiety unexplained. Every flower of Ketaki is blossomed as if the forest has laughed. And peacocks dance with a precipitate joy. (Canto 2) [9] Cooled by the touch of fresh drops of water, And perfumed by the flower laden fragrant Lasak trees Aye! scented sweet by the ...