India, May 9 -- India is renowned worldwide for its exceptional diversity in language, customs, festivals, and food. Each part of India has its distinct culinary culture ranging from seafood, meat curries to vegetarian cuisine. But within this vast array of foods comes an exceptional city which is different from any other city in the world. This exceptional city has banned all sorts of non-vegetarian food items. One can find nothing related to chicken, beef, mutton, or even eggs. The sounds of the slaughterhouse are totally unheard here.

Palitana, situated in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, is this exceptional city, also famous for being the first pure vegetarian city of the world. Palitana is not only renowned for its religious significa...