Whose mango is it anyway?

India-Pakistan disagreements range from the Kashmir dispute to the ownership of the legacy of a variety of mango. This variety is called Anwar Rataul in Pakistan and Rataul in India, named after a town in western Uttar Pradesh, barely 30 km from Delhi. In 1981, then Pakistan president Zia-ul-Haq sent a basket of Anwar Rataul to prime minister Indira Gandhi. She loved the fruit but residents of Rataul became upset after reading reports about the present and a delegation from the village came to Delhi to tell her that she had been gifted “fake” Ratauls and that the fruit originated