Mango: The King of Fruits

Amen! Pakistani mangoes, especially, are incredibly sweet, succulent and juicy. I gorge myself on them in the summer months!!! I've tried Alphonso mangoes from India and also Israeli mangoes and I have to say Paki ones are the best!

In the words of Ghalib, a connoisseur of mangoes, there are only two qualities mangoes need have: 'they must be sweet and they must be plentiful!'
 
LOL. And if the juice doesn't dribble down to your elbows, then you haven't mastered the art of eating mangoes!! LOL!!
 
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I have never tried Pakistani Honey mangoes. They sell for less than half the price of Alphonsos & Kesars (which are lip-smackingly good). Honey mangoes don't look appetising.

Nothing beats Langda though! Langda is a speciality of Eastern India. It has not been marketed as well as Alphonso. Himsagar is another lesser known variety which is the sweetest of them all (actually too sweet to be consumed in dozens).

Google for Langda and Alphonso together, and you will find overwhelming majority of reviews favouring Langda.
 
The last time I heard there were more than 50 different kinds of mangoes grown in Pakistan.

I had one giant kind in Lahore, it weighed 1.5 kilos. I was in search of a really large one. Pakistani mangoes are the best. Multan is the land of Mangoes. I eat a lot of Pakistani mangoes no matter how much they cost. I love them. They are however very heavy and create a lot of warmth in the body. So, as I saw, Pakistani Punjabis after eating mangoes supplanted them with "COLD LASSI"

"COLD LASSI" is made by 1/4th milk and 3/4th cold water in salt. It cools down the inherent warmth of the mango. You would not get pimples as a result. The warmth of the mango with the COLD LASSI then converts to blood in the body. So mango eaters get a red skin, as I do. Allah is the most beautiful and His creation is all beautiful. I thank Allah for giving us so much beautiful tastes and fruits and mangoes. It is all the light of Sayyiduna Muhammad salAllaho 'alayhi wa alihi wa salam. Eat what benefits you, but eat moderately and with bismilAllah in the beginning and thanks in the middle and alHamduLilAllah at the end.

The act of eating is of great spiritual significance for the sufis. Allah is Most Kind, Most Merciful.
 
I've tried Alphonso mangoes from India and also Israeli mangoes and I have to say Paki ones are the best!
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alphonso is just one type; back home in the mango season, we have dozes of varieties and i kid you not - DOZENS, indeed.

and as usual, the 'best' mango is just a matter of taste and personal preference.

http://www.boloji.com/ghalib/art01.htm

that said, here is ghalib's masnavi on mangoes (though a bit wayward as is his habit).
 
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to be honest i don't pay much attention to the exact type of mango written on the side of the boxes i purchase..i have heard of langra though and kesar and others and may well have tried them without knowing which was which.
 
Let me add, langda is also widely grown in Pakistan, and it is by far one of the best I ate, especially in Sindh where several varieties of Langda is grown.

Pakistani mangoes are just amaizing. May be it is the indus earth and water that makes them.
 
for me the indian southern variety of beynishaan , or bainganpally and the himayat are anyday better than the alphonso, which btw i think is a bit overrated.

it has been a few years since i'd had the indian variety, here in the us its bland mexican mangoes.

btw bro Wadood there are more than 500 varieties of Mangoes grown in India.
 
the Pakistan vs India rivalry
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i include pakistan when i say india - after all, artificial borders do not divide a people?

;)

okay, okay. let us not fight.

frankly, i am against nationalism and particularly dislike this label of being an indian or pakistani (though i have to endure it for practical purposes). i am a citizen of the world.
cheen o arab hamara, hindostan hamaara
muslim haiN hum; waTan hai, saara jahaaN hamaara!​
 
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actually sidi aH, i do think that in the next 25 years or so a sort of South Asian equivalent of the EU could become possible with a common currency, no border controls, freedom of movement etc. for Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Nepalis, Bhutanese.

That'd be great.

AND if something similar could be developed by the Muslim countries it'd be a miracle! Let's pray for that!
 
naqshbandijamaati said:
actually sidi aH, i do think that in the next 25 years or so a sort of South Asian equivalent of the EU could become possible with a common currency, no border controls, freedom of movement etc. for Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Nepalis, Bhutanese.
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Noble thoughts, but Utopian.

India and Pakistan are divided by two religions which will never find a common ground. Language, films and cricket can never be the unifying forces.

I have seen the visceral hatred that Indian hindus have for Pakistanis (and Muslims in general). Hindus (I mean, the majority of the new breed) are essentially the most jahil and fanatical people on the earth. Pogrom or holocaust is a real possibility for Indian Muslims (with the ethnic cleansing lab experiment successfully conducted in Gujarat). An open world (which might scrutinise its action) and vote-bank politics are the only deterrents.

I find Pakistanis more nostalgic and open-minded about the commonalities, while Hindus (except the left-minded and of old generation) reserve hate (or at best indifference) for their neighbours.

Mark my words, India is slowly going to dogs (in terms of communal harmony) and Indian Muslims have a very difficult future ahead of them. May Allah (azza wa'jal) strengthen the Indian Muslim populace and provide them ascendancy in education and political power for the sake of the awliyas resting in India.

EU is a union of christian (or secular!) countries. See how opposed it is to Turkey (which has its history in Islam, although its present is hardly in Islam). North & South Koreans share common religion (atheism and christianity are not that disparate) and language. Taiwan and China are made of people of one race and religion (if any). Two Germanies and Yemens united because there was very little separating the two people. Situation is quite different between India and Pakistan.
 
India and Pakistan are divided by two religions which will never find a common ground. Language, films and cricket can never be the unifying forces.
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i think that it is rigid. like it or not, materialism seems to be the common-ground. al-iyadhu billah.

frankly, if muslims learn to be sensible and make sensible choices and learn to act on a few things from their own religion (like loving fellow humans, forgiveness, patience, co-operation, trustworthiness, being upright, fearlessness in stating the truth, etc..) and disown the extremism and extreme stupidity of the wahabi, we will be better off and people will think better of us.

we are quick to blame the administration/government/hindus for our suffering, but having endured riots i must say that our people are not entirely innocent. take the case of deccan-herald riots or the babri masjid riots: some idiot wrote a blasphemous story in a popular local newspaper; other idiots from our community went out forcing businesses to close down expressing their 'anger'.

just ask yourself: what is the crime of a shop owner who probably cannot even read the newspaper? just because the blasphemer was a hindu, our people were angry with all hindus and they not only burned down the newspaper's office, they took a few other neighboring establishments as spare change. initially, they were the victims - but when the tide turned, it was us, muslims who ended up beaten and bruised. they targeted muslims shops and gutted them down.

i am not praising the hindu, nor saying that they are better than us - haasha lillah. but just being introspect and attempting to find solutions for ourselves to live in peace and in one piece.

and people seem to have learned the hard way and it is encouraging. a few weeks ago, some miscreant placed a bag with a hog's head in a masjid and that too ON a friday. there was some anger and the situation was tense, but luckily young men did not overreact.

before someone tells me off for my insensitivity, i ask them: what can we do about it? it was an abominable act - an act of provocation; but who should we retaliate against? the person or the group of persons who committed the crime went away - and punishing those who were not even aware is not justice. and supposing muslims retaliate by burning shops (stupidity!) and killing the unsuspecting wayfarer who is probably more worried about the loss of livelihood than plotting a pogrom against muslims will end in riots; end in suffering for muslims.

Allah ta'ala knows best.
 
And all this discussion stemmed from the Blessed Mango!! I never thought I could stir such emotions. Long live King Mango! LOL!
 
abu Hasan said:
i think that it is rigid. like it or not, materialism seems to be the common-ground. al-iyadhu billah.
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Ever tried finding a house to buy/rent in a hindu locality in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi etc.? When I tried looking for a flat to share with my hindu colleague in Mumbai about 8 years back, brokers told us clearly that most localities would be off-bound for me. How can people who can't countenance the presence of a Muslim neighbour expect to live along side Pakistanis?

http://communalism.blogspot.com/2008/04/ghettoisation-and-religious-segregation.html


abu Hasan said:
frankly, if muslims learn to be sensible and make sensible choices and learn to act on a few things from their own religion.
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I am not saying that Indian Muslims are entirely blameless. It is easier trusting a hindu businessman than a Muslim businessman. But tarring the entire community for acts of few is not a 'civilised' treatment. More terrorist acts in India are committed by Maoist, PWG, ULFA, Boros etc. (all hindu outfits) than by SIMI, HUJI, Lashkar etc. (even when you account for the fact that hindu terrorism victims should logically outnumber islamic terrorism victims by 8:1, i.e. the respective proportion of population).

Just because most financial market scamsters are Gujarati hindus, are all Gujaratis considered scamsters in India? Nay, they are highly respected.

Riots in India are mostly the handiwork of hindu outfits. Just check the facts in Bhagalpur, Maliana, Meerut, Mumbai, Gujarat etc. To say that Muslims have themselves to blame for all such acts is facile. In most cases any minor infraction on the part of Muslim community is simply an excuse for the well-prepared RSS/VHP to start the blood-curdling carnage.

Ground realities have undergone a seismic change of late. Radicalisation has been caused more by RSS/VHP/Bajrang Dal/Shiv Sena/Durga Vahini shakhas than by misdeeds of Muslims. Sadly the 'educated' hindus are more communal than the uneducated ones. Thankfully, the Indian press is fairly even-handed and balanced (unlike those in the west), otherwise radicalisation would have been far worse.


SA01 said:
And all this discussion stemmed from the Blessed Mango!! I never thought I could stir such emotions. Long live King Mango! LOL!
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I suggest that Mods move this digression on Indo-Pak unity to another thread.
 
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