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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Thousands throng for fish prasadam - The Untold Story

A member of the Bathini Goud family administers traditional fish ‘prasadam’ to an asthma patient on Mrigasira Karthi, at the Nampally Exhibition ground, in Hyderabad on Friday. (Source: NAGARA GOPAL)

Ending a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19 restrictions, Hyderabad’s Bathini Goud family resumed its popular annual fish ‘prasadam’ distribution programme for people with asthma and respiratory illnesses, here on Friday.

Dating its legacy of the ‘fish medicine’ distribution to the 1840s, when the Bathini’s patriarch was told the secret herbal recipe by a sage, the family this year estimates participation of five lakh takers.

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