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Rajyotsava winner at 136?
Special Correspondent
Bangalore: Ghaini Lal Singh Jamkar is 136 by her claim. Official version puts the wizened old woman’s age in the vicinity of 100.
At any rate, she is the oldest among the Rajyotsava award winners this year and she attributes her longevity and great health — but for “ears which are not as sharp as they were and knees that feel a bit weak” — to the traditional medicine she administers to herself and others.
“I have never taken an injection or a pill to this day,” says Ms. Jamkar, mother of 10 and grandmother and great-grandmother to more than she can count or remember. From a small village in Davangere district, she belongs to the Jamkar jaat in the Raj Gond tribe of traditional medicine practitioners.
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