{"id":1320,"date":"2021-03-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T06:48:36","slug":"bhopals-anant-mandi-promotes-organic-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2021\/03\/19\/bhopals-anant-mandi-promotes-organic-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhopal&#8217;s Anant Mandi Promotes Organic Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dfdH2n362tTioC1TbV5GTAAKrAZJ_bt5\/preview\" width=\"720\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gandhi Bhawan, Bhopal, India<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Abeer Khan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BHOPAL, INDIA \u2013 Anant Mandi, which is organized by Anant and Go Rurban every Sunday at Gandhi Bhawan, aims to&nbsp; promote ecological farming and local artwork.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandi in Hindi refers to traditional marketplaces. Anant Mandi<em> <\/em>invites independent artists and farmers to exhibit and sell their products.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The market is organized between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organic farmers from different cities of Madhya Pradesh sell vegetables, lentils, grains, oil, honey, jaggery, natural fertilizers, dairy products, herbal medicines and cosmetics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many artists, potters and jewelers from the city also display their work for sale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One vendor sold handmade naturally colored powder for use during the upcoming festival of colors, <em>Holi<\/em>. While, another sold handmade face masks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workshops and performances were also organized to keep attendees entertained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The market offered a healthy food stall, which sold traditional home-cooked dishes made of organic ingredients. The options included black wheat dumplings, spiced beans and rice, Kashmiri tea and pickled vegetables.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organizers aim to emphasize the role of farmers in the Indian economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vendors and attendees adhered to social distancing and practiced COVID-19 preventive measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandhi Bhawan, Bhopal, India By Abeer Khan BHOPAL, INDIA \u2013 Anant Mandi, which is organized by Anant and Go Rurban every Sunday at Gandhi Bhawan, aims to&nbsp; promote ecological farming and local artwork.&nbsp; Mandi in Hindi refers to traditional marketplaces. Anant Mandi invites independent artists and farmers to exhibit and sell their products.&nbsp; The market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[17,52,27,45,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-1320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-videos","8":"category-video-reports","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-international","12":"tag-leisure","13":"tag-lifestyle","14":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}