The global organic food & beverage market is expected to reach USD 320.5 billion by 2025. Growing popularity of non-GMO products among consumers, owing to the health benefits associated with their consumption, is expected to drive the demand over the forecast period.

Fruits and vegetables dominated the global organic food market accounted for over 37% of revenue share in 2015. Furthermore, increasing consumption of meat and poultry products resulted in the fastest growth of the segment and is expected to grow substantially at a CAGR of 13% over the forecast period.

Non-dairy beverages such as rice, soymilk, and oat beverages accounted for over 33% of the total share of organic beverages market in 2015. However, beer and wine is projected to grow substantially at a CAGR of 13.5% over the forecast period owing to increasing global economic conditions and high consumption of a broad range of flavored beverages.

The industry in Asia Pacific is projected to witness fastest growth over the forecast period and account for over 12% of global revenue by 2025. Asia Pacific is projected to witness highest growth on account of growing agriculture sector in the region coupled with robust domestic demand has led to significant demand for the product.

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A Novelist's Meditation on Loss and Identity New York Times Zinzi Clemmons, whose first novel is What We Lose. Credit Monica Almeida for The New York Times. When Zinzi Clemmons was in third grade, her family moved from West Philadelphia to Swarthmore, Pa., drawn by the quality of its public schools.

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Tacoma, WA: Tushita Kadampa Buddhist Center in Tacoma, WA will present a day course titled, Connecting with Our Dream-Like Self & Letting go of Problems; A Meditation Workshop, Sunday, June 4th from 10:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The problems we face in life, which seem so solid and real, will disappear like last nights bad dream when we apply Buddhas teachings on emptiness, the way things actually exist as opposed to the way they appear. In the book Modern Buddhism, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche explains:

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If we dream of an elephant, the elephant appears vividly in all its detail we can see it, hear it, smell it, and touch it- but when we wake up we realize that it was just an appearance to mind. We do not wonder, Where is the elephant now? because we understand that it was simply a projection of our mind and had no existence outside our mind.

This view of emptiness, the dream-like nature of things, teaches us that we can overcome our fears and gradually become more peaceful, flexible, and creative. In How to Transform Your Life, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche writes:

All our delusions stem from self-grasping ignorance. Self-grasping ignorance is the source of all our negativity and problems, and the only way to eradicate it is to realize emptiness. Emptiness is not easy to understand, but it is extremely important that we make the effort. Ultimately our efforts will be rewarded by the permanent cessation of all suffering and the everlasting bliss of full enlightenment.

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LUNENBURG -- Residents are trying to stop a four-day music and meditation festival from being held next month.

On May 16, selectmen granted the nonprofit Unifier Festival a temporary license for an all-ages, interfaith, and substances-free event at 300 Holman St. from June 22 to 25.

The festival has drawn support from those planning to attend. But a "super majority" of Holman Street residents want nothing to do with it, said Steven Whitman, of 473 Holman St.

"We're looking for the Board of Selectmen to rescind the license," said Whitman, formerly the director of the Department of Public Works in Leominster and founder of the civil engineering firm Whitman & Bingham Associates.

In its fourth year, Unifier Festival organizes "sacred celebrations" featuring yoga, music, dance, live art, and spaces for "interfaith ceremony" and permaculture, according to festival literature.

Jason Cohen, festival curator, stressed that the attendees have a reverence for land and community.

"There are hippie festivals where people come in and make places less beautiful, but that's not what we're doing," said Cohen. "We don't want to disturb you if you live three or four houses down."

In a certified letter dated May 20, Whitman wrote selectmen and Holman Street homeowners have retained a lawyer to pursue avenues for blocking the festival.

"Never have I witnessed such an arbitrary and capricious decision by a town or city board such as this one," Whitman wrote.

UMass Memorial psychiatrist Daron C. Massey owns the nearly 35-acre property at 300 Holman St. where the event is planned.

Cohen said Massey attended a past Unifier event. Massey volunteered to let Unifier use his land this year while organizers close a deal on a permanent property in Tolland, Cohen said.

Leominster attorney John Dombrowski is representing the 15 Holman Street homeowners aiming to halt Unifier, Dombrowski said.

They say their rural enclave cannot support the expected 500 attendees and their 250 cars.

"I have nothing against festivals or whatnot, but this is in a residential area," said Eric Blomgren, of 272 Holman St., who added his wife, a nurse, would be disturbed with noise from the festival.

The Board of Selectmen and town manager, homeowners allege, made a procedural error during the permitting process.

According to homeowners, Town Manager Heather Lemieux should have notified homeowners via mail of two May meetings when festival organizers appeared before the Board of Selectmen seeking the permit.

Advance notification would have allowed abutters to attend the meetings and voice opposition to the festival, according to several abutters.

"I have no idea why you would permit 500 people to camp by my house and not give any notice about the presentation," said Eric Short, of 502 Holman St.

The hearing was posted in advance on the town website in accordance with open meeting laws, said Lemieux.

Selectmen Clerk Paula Bertram, at last Tuesday's meeting where two abutters spoke against the event, said festival organizers addressed all health and safety concerns had by the Conservation Commission, Nashoba Board of Health, and town Fire and Police Chiefs.

Bertram said selectmen are open to reviewing abutters' concerns. She said she is not inclined to revoke the entertainment license.

"If by procedural error we made a mistake, we erred, then we will correct that error," said Bertram.

Festival opponents and proponents may get the chance to hash out their differences at a special selectmen meeting tentatively scheduled for June 6, said Lemieux.

Lemieux said town officials must consult with the town's attorney before confirming that date.

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MADISON In addition to Mahjongg, canasta, bridge, ping pong, poker, coloring, trips and movies, the Madison Senior Center inside the Madison Civic Center at 28 Walnut St. has added more fitness programming to its schedule.

Popular instructor Donna Sue Dowton will continue to lead classes in Stretch and Flex, Not Your Daughters Yoga and Balance and Stability. In addition, she has introduced Meditation, a twice-monthly class in the Senior Centers Activities Room, designed to educate adults about the benefits of guided breathing and relaxation exercises.

A classroom setting is less likely to have the distractions of a home setting, and the guided exercises allow students to concentrate on the fundamentals rather than sequence, Dowton explained.

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Among the benefits of meditation, Dowton noted, are lower blood pressure, improved blood circulation, lower heart rate, slower respiratory rate, less anxiety, deeper relaxation and better sleep. For an additional charge of $10, a 40-page booklet and CD can be purchased.

The meditation classes is under way and will continue on the first and third Tuesday of each month. There is a $5 fee per class which is billed on a quarterly basis.

Registration is ongoing for Stretch and Flex, Balance and Stability and Not Your Daughters Yoga.

Stretch and Flex is held at 10:30 a.m. Mondays and at 9 a.m. Thursdays, and students can sign up for once-weekly or twice-weekly classes. The yoga class meets at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays, and the balance class is held at 1:15 p.m. Wednesdays.

The fee is $60 for a 12-week series. Donna Sue Dowton is a certified Personal Trainer and Group Exercise Instructor who has worked exclusively with senior citizens since 2001. Her training includes certifications in balance, posture, anatomy, chair yoga, and exercise for people with joint replacements, arthritis, and osteoporosis.

All classes are held on the upper level of the Madison Civic Center at 28 Walnut St. For information, call (973) 593-3095.

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If someone asks to name a place that defines Mahatma Gandhi as a person, a politician, a statesman, a visionary, a philanthropist, a social reformer and a freedom fighter, it will be Sabarmati Ashram.

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Sabarmati Ashram is the mortal reflection of Gandhian philosophy. It was on May 25, 1915, that a young barrister named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, came from South Africa after struggling against the Apartheid regime, established the Sabarmati Ashram.

1. Sabarmati Ashram, when established wasnt at the current location. Initially, it was originally established at the Kocharab Bungalow of Jivanlal Desai, a barrister and friend of Gandhi, on 25 May 1915. At that time the ashram was called the Satyagraha Ashram.

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2. But Gandhi wanted to carry out various activities such as farming and animal husbandry, which required bigger area. Therefore, on 17 June 1917, the ashram was relocated to an area of thirty-six acres on the banks of the river Sabarmati, and it came to be known as the Sabarmati Ashram.

3. In mythology, its believed to be one of the sites of Dadhichi Rishi who had donated his bone for the war against demons.

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4. Mahatma Gandhi had chosen this location for three reasons: Being a Gujarati, Ill serve my country best through the use of the Gujarati language. As Ahmedabad was the centre of the handloom in early days, the work of spinning wheel (charkha) could be done in a better way, I believed. Being the capital of Gujarat its wealthy persons will also make a larger contribution, I hoped," in his own words.

5. The first struggle Mahatma Gandhi led from the Sabarmati Ashram was for the textile workers strike. There was a complete deadlock between the mill owners and the inadequately paid workers. Mahatma joined them in Satyagraha and soon their demands were met.

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6. Sabarmati Ashram rose to fame when it became the landmark on unity between Indian people when on 12 March 1930, Mahatma started his 240-mile walk to the western coast to break the salt tax imposed by the British.

7. While leaving for Dandi March, Mahatma took a pledge that he would never return to Sabarmati Ashram until India achieves freedom.

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8. India did achieve freedom, but Mahatma never returned to Sabarmati as he was assassinated by Nathu Ram Godse on 30 January 1948 in New Delhi.

9. Today Sabarmati Ashram is a museum where various things which are the souvenirs of Mahatma Gandhi and the philosophy of freedom and equality he lived for have been preserved.

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Pune: Two brothers were arrested by the Shirur police on Thursday for allegedly molesting two minor girls of a private ashram located in Shirur, about 70km from here.

The police registered a case late on Wednesday and arrested Abaji Chalak (43) and Babaji Chalak (72), both residents of Shirur on Thursday. Babaji Chalak is a well-known kirtankar in these parts. He performs at a famous Ganapati temple here where he is known as Chalak Maharaj.

The girls, in their statements to the police,described how they were sexually abused between June 2016 and May 2017 at the ashram where they learned to be kirtankars (the art of performing religious songs and discourses).

He was arrested just after he finished performing at the temple on Thursday morning, assistant inspector Ganesh Kshirsagar of Shirur police station told TOI.

Both were produced before a city court on Thursday afternoon and remanded in police custody till Friday.

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Ujjain: Thousands of devotees sought solace and blessings of the guru for 3-days at the Jaigurudev ashram. They spent their days listening religious discourses by Umakant maharaj feasting on the prashad which is claimed to protect beneficiaries from any untoward situation throughout the year. The religious festival will also be remembered for the unique world record set by the disciples of Jaigurudev, who by pledged a totally vegetarian lifestyle. On last day, Umakant maharaj remained all day amidst the devotees, who had travelled miles to attain mental peace and spiritual satisfaction in the presence of guru and showered them with blessings.

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In the concluding discourse, Umakant maharaj threw light on the importance of the guru in life and narrated examples of how his life was shaped under the guidance of Jaigurudev. He said, the guru instills values in his disciple which shape their family and spiritual life. Guru leads a follower towards salvation, he concluded. The next gathering of Jaigurudev disciples will be held on the occasion of guru-purnima in Rajasthan.

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