[Destination: India] Called as Bandya

In India, Yeti is "called as Bandya". That's a direct quote from the Wikipedia page for Yeti and it's been in there for ages. I have no idea what it means. I can find no reference to the fact that in India, Yeti is known as Bandya. Sorry, Wikipedia.

Anyway! Let's go to India!

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Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is reality TV show had an episode featuring this fellow:

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Film: Balak aur Janwar (1975)

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Snow World, a theme park in Hyderabad, Telangana has this yellow-goggled mascot:

Source

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Kids Cartoon: Vir the Robot Boy currently airing in India.

The description to episode Vir vs. Yeti: "To destroy Vir, Mad Max makes a robot which look like Yeti and sends him to Vir. Vir with his school friend's and teacher have come to Himalaya on a trek. Vir and Imli accidently meet a real Yeti and make friendship with him. Watch what confusion takes place when they meet the fake Yeti"

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Yeti: The Himalayan Kitchen, in Hauz Khas Village in Delhi - authentic Nepalese food

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Bandya!

[Destination: India] Chhota Bheem

Introducing a new feature called Destinations. We'll travel to a different part of the globe and check out the Yeti love there.

Today's trip: INDIA

Chhota Bheem is a popular children's animated series.  One of its spin-off films, "Dholakpur to Kathmandu", featured Migo the Yeti Cub, who is  rescued by the titular hero.

Dangerous!

In 2000 there was a horror movie from India, I believe, named Khatarnak. Khatarnak means dangerous. When something is khatarnak, it inevitably features a yeti... and in this case, a cyclops yeti.

Or so I thought. But then I found this image which implies the yeti is double-headed, rather than one-eyed.

Perhaps they are both in the film. That would be something, wouldn't it?

What if, in the movie, the Cyclops Yeti and the Double-Headed Yeti fight it out for territorial acquisition? Who would win? The answer hands-down is Cyclops Yeti.

As anyone who has ever given the matter thought (and I am the president of just such a group of anyones), the one-eyed Cyclops Yeti is the most powerful of all yeti. It does not exist and is merely a fable upon which I can attribute the most amount of power for comedic purposes. You might think its single eye would be a disadvantage? You'd be absolutely right. As a result of having only one eye, the creature can barely see and must rely on other senses to perform the most basic of tasks. But you know what? The Cyclops Yeti is so powerful otherwise that it hardly makes a difference. If you are ever in some kind of impossible fabulistic reality where you have a chance to bet on yeti-combat, and (here's the really unlikely part) there is a Cyclops Yeti competing - PUT ALL YOUR MONEY ON IT.

You will become fabulistically rich.