AYURVEDA MEETS MEWARI CUISINE

ETHICAL FEAST I AM WHAT I EAT ... I AM THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE….

Rajputana Society of Natural History

bySatya Prakash Mehra

MEWARGhehoon chor makka khani, Mewar chhod kathe na jani.

INDIAN FOOD PYRAMID

Relationship

In no country is life valued so much as in India, and many people would even hesitate to destroy

the meanest or the most harmful animalsE. P. Gee

PRAKRUTI AND PURUSH(Nature and Man)

TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY FEAST IS

ECO-FRIENDLY

Agro-Ecosystemare used for Biodiversity

Studies

Insects are integral part of Agro-Ecosystem

Insects are integral part of Agro-Ecosystem

Spiders are the part of Agro-Ecosystem

Agriculture Fields & Avifauna

Grass

→Grasshopper

→Toad

→Snake

→Hawk

→Bacteria of

decay

In general,Autotrophs(Producers)

→

Herbivores(Primary Consumers)

→

Carnivores(Secondary, tertiary, etc. consumers)

→Decomposers

Let’s think ……

Acknowledgement

I am grateful to WII , Dehradun for providing the maps publicly for academic use. I heartilyacknowledge Mr . M. V. Nair whose compiled illustration of insects (Slide 25) and spiders (Slide 26)used here for presentation to highlight their importance in Agro-Ecosystem. Further, I feel pleasure inacknowledging www.indianfoodsco.com for information given slide 6 . Thanks are due to Directorateof Horticulture , Jaipur for the nice information on the fruit plants in Rajasthan provided publicly.Last but not leastI thank RSNH for permitting me to use the photographs of their Photo Library for such non-commercial events.Thanks to all the known and unknown persons who are directly and indirectly rendered their help andcomments for the key information on the focused issue.