amritsar to promote the fading habit of traditional sweet stalks ali a palh an agriculturalist from karachi pakistan floated the idea of a joint online sugarcane chewing party with indiastressing on the health benefits ali felt that people are forgetting the importance of natural organic food due to the current lifestyle i get perturbed when youth say they wouldnt eat ganna sugarcane they consider it a poor class food eaten in a primitive manner i thus began holding annual gurtea and sugarcane chewing party in karachi and amazingly within a couple of years those who used to dislike ganna chusna suck sugarcane started giving positive reactions said aliali said that not only the presentday youth but many welleducated people do not know about sugarcane and how it is chewed i was utterly surprised when a high court judge asked me whether sugarcane is a plant or a tree said ali who is also an advocate practicing in the high court of sindh karachi pakistandue to presentday lifestyle the memories of sugarcane chewing had even faded away among the elderly people in both india and pakistan feels ali thats why i have offered to hold joint online sugarcane chewing parties to revive the tradition of both countries he saidduring the party we also tell the participants how to remove the rind from the sugarcane stalk and chew the inside of it and spit it out after its juice is sucked said ali who is counting on likeminded people from india to join the sugarcane party next year onwardsthe effort will also bring the people of the two countries close to each other and shed differences and misconceptions if any he said