Katrisarai in Bihar’s Nalanda district were running
highly successful businesses mailing products plugged as aphrodisiacs and cures
for a variety of mainly sexual and skin ailments to seekers of cures who prefer
anonymity. Katrisarai sub-post office. is actually a sub-post office and
yet, it’s the top revenue generating post office in the State and is also among
the top 10 [revenue generating post offices] in the country,” postmaster
Nagendra Prasad told.
The nondescript village with a population of nearly 8,000
has been a hub for vaidyas some allegedly fake, others said to be
genuine who offer shartiyaelaaz (guaranteed treatment) with locally
mixed powders. “It has been like cottage industry here since the British
period. I am the fourth generation of my family doing this business,”
59-year-old Kishore Kumar told. Mr. Kumar says there are 40-50
“genuine” vaidyas in the town. But the post office has a list of
179 vaidyas who regularly courier their formulations in insured
parcels. Ami Chand, an Ayurvedic practitioner, is said to have first succeeded
in such an enterprise from here and, since then, his legacy has been taken
forward by his family members and other villagers. Today, almost every household
here has a vaidya
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