Coming soon dussehri in its red avatar

The region’s famed dussehri, which connoisseurs often rank highly on taste, is all set to get a crimson avatar. UP’s Mango Man, 76-year old Padma Shri recipient Haji Kalimullah has now set out to make the king of fruits a little more appealing by adding ‘surkhi’ (tinge of crimson) to dussehri’s skin. For this, he has picked up generations-old desi varieties of mangoes which have a reddish skin, like zafran and surkh murshidabad, which will be crossed with Malihabadi dussehri. If the variety turns out as good in taste as it looks, Kalimullah would name it after India’s Missile Man and former President APJ Abdul Kalam.