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Hing or Asafoetida has many medicinal uses. The most common problems of the stomach like gas, irritable bowel syndrome, bloating, intestinal worm infection, and flatulence can all be treated with this magical ingredient. It has both anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic properties that help in alleviating these kinds of health issues. Today, I am giving you the recipe of Hing ka Achaar (Asafoetida pickle) which you can take along with your meals and can enjoy its benefits. It is a spicy, sour, and tasty pickle. Ingredients: Kaccha aam (raw mango)                 - 1.5 kg (cut in thin small pieces) Salt                                                        - 250 gms Lal Mirch (moti kutti)                         - 150 gms (like chili flakes) Hing (Asafoetida) powder                 - 50 gms Method: Cut the raw mangoes in thin and small pieces, so that it is convenient to take the pickle. Make sure that no water is there in the mango pieces, cut with dry hands. 

The deaths of actors Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor are shocking, but then death is the ultimate leveler. It is the thought of death and misery that has forced people to leave everything and begin the search for truth. All things have to reduce to dust. Lord Krishna in The Bhagwad Geeta talks of the worldly nature of material things around us. Nothing is yours and when you leave the world it is the ‘Atma’, i.e., consciousness that stays. I am reminded of these thoughts amid the coronavirus crisis that is taking its toll all over the world and the deaths of two fine actors in Indian cinema – Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor – from cancer of different kinds one after the other. As a soul, in every life, we get new roles, relationships, material possessions, and success on the basis of what we have earned by the actions performed in our previous births. So every birth offers us an opportunity to do better actions and create more happiness for the self and others. It’s not possible to