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Very Intresting.Whole family is nearing 100yrs...
120-year-old Assam woman lives on boiled food & rice beer
2010-09-17 15:40:00
Last Updated: 2010-09-17 16:32:51
Rongmowe (Assam): At 120, she is one of India's oldest women and Kareng Teronpi
is still going strong, thanks to a daily diet of bland boiled rice, vegetables,
and, of course, a regular bottle of moonshine to keep her spirits high!
She looks frail and emaciated, is weak in the knees and almost bedridden for
the
past year. But Kareng is very agile - with near perfect eyesight and a voice
still chirpy.
'I don't know when I was born... maybe many years ago,' Kareng said with a coy
smile. Incidentally, her eldest daughter is around 90 years old and stays
nearby.
A resident of village Rongmongwe Sorpokathar in Karbi Anglong district, about
280 km east of Assam's main city of Guwahati, Kareng, a tribal Karbi woman, is
believed to have completed her 120th birthday.
'Based on details from our uncles and aunts and grandparents we have calculated
her age, although we don't have any birth records as such,' Docsingh Kathar,
one
of the many grandsons of Kareng, told IANS.
Kareng loves eating good food - rice, boiled vegetables, soup being her staple
menu, besides a passion for rice beer.
'She requires at least two glasses of Hor (fermented rice beer). She relishes
the drink. She is a vegetarian and never eats spicy food,' Kathar said.
The mother of four children, Kareng has seen four generations and the entire
family consists of more than 60 people. Two of her children - a son and a
daughter - are alive, while two others expired.
'She can recognise us from a distance as he still has very good eyesight,' a
grandson said with a cheeky smile.
Kareng's husband died some six decades ago.
Interestingly, the village is home to about a dozen odd people who are in their
90s. Some even claim to have crossed the century mark.
'I am nearing 100 and the key to my longevity is that I never ate tobacco or
tobacco products, always ate boiled food with no spices, besides maintaining a
disciplined life all along,' said Jon Kathar.
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