Aish in your basket

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will now be seen on your fruit basket. Grafting expert and Padmashree horticulturist Haji Kaleemullah Khan has made a different variety of guava and named it after Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The new variety of guava looks like an apple and is more sweet smelling. According to Haji Kaleemullah Khan, the biggest advantage of this variety of the fruit is it’s soft seeds.


The horticulturist mentioned that all measures were taken to ensure that the product is free from any possible side effect which chemical fertiliser or pesticide may have on fruits. In May last year, Haji Kaleemullah Khan grafted a new variety of mango, which he named after famous crickter Sachin Tendulkar. Haji Kaleemullah Khan has also won the Padmashree award for growing more than three hundred varieties of mangoes of different shapes and sizes on one tree. The tree is about hundred years old and he started working on it in 1987 to craft different varieties of fruit.

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