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‘Vegetarian-only’ properties in pockets of Mumbai: Meat eaters, stay away

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ngveg - Eateries offering only vegetarian food in Mahavir Nagar in Mumbai in the the state of Maharashtra

Credit: Nirmala Ganapathy

In India, non-vegetarians far outnumber vegetarians, but the country has the highest number of vegetarians in the world.

ST PHOTO: NIRMALA GANAPATHY

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In Mrs K. Choudhary’s north Mumbai apartment complex, non-vegetarians would run into an insurmountable wall of resistance if they tried to rent or buy an apartment.

In fact, in the complex of more than 800 apartments in Mahavir Nagar, door-to-door garbage collectors will not even pick up garbage if they see eggshells in it, residents there said.

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