Boon Of Wellbeing Better Than Wealth Top Searches: Boon of wellbeing better than wealth Editorial by Jug Suraiya Add to Spiritual Diary As a young boy in what was then called Calcutta, I would often accompany my mother to the Victoria Memorial where, on a park bench, the senior ladies of the city’s Kutchi community would foregather every evening to exchange notes on the comings and goings within the clan. It was said that no one within the larger kutumbh of Kutchis could get married, or be born, or pass on, without their implicit sanction. The senior most member of the group was Mittibai, a distinguished dowager who always carried with her a small silver box of dry roasted pumpkin seeds which she said were an excellent aid to digestion, crunchy titbits whose tangy taste I relished.