Much of his early life was spent herding cows and picking edelweiss for tourists.

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We are partial to the edelweiss lip balm, a protective salve made from the antioxidant-heavy alpine flower.

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Edelweiss is a Heidi-style alpine hideout in the middle of the town, with cosy timbered rooms featuring wild-flower-painted pine bed-heads.

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Deepak Jain, senior analysts at Edelweiss Capital in Mumbai, says that India's underlying economic growth and declining interest rates have spurred car sales.

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Siddhartha Sanyal, chief economist at Edelweiss Capital, a financial services firm in Mumbai, noted that exit polls tend to get influenced by the consensus view prevalent in the media.

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