Mention one difference between india and rest of the world and pop come the reply…Paan.

Much as we hate to see paan stains in public places, chewing paan after dinner is one indulgence exclusive to the country. While Muchchand Paan is the most popular personality in the paan making fraternity, Vadodara has a number of families serving the sweet tooth of people on the lookout for an after mint post meal time. Paan Chewing is a habit developed in the vedic ages. The sages would give therapeutic medicines to regulate digestion and bowel movement by wrapping the medicine herbs in a betel leaf. Slowly, people found Supari and catechus (Kattha), herbs that provided relief from cough, sore throat and mouth ulcers, to be good after meal accompaniment. Paan became a piece de resistance at the Nawabi courts where paan lovers would order for gold and silver cases to hold paan…
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