Darkoshi

Manipur - one of the eastern-most states of India, on the border with Myanmar.
Meitei - a language and ethnic group of people in that region.
Sanamahism - a religion in that region.

The history of India is so extensive. I don't remember learning any of it in school, except perhaps a brief mention of the East India Company and Gandhi. I wonder if they teach much more of it in British primary schools?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_integration_of_India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princely_state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire


Manipuri dance, a traditional dance form, has some quite unusual-looking dresses:



Video title: Manipuri classical dance Basanta Raas
Posted by: WildFilmsIndia
Date posted: Feb 3, 2016

This site sells a lot of pretty-looking clothing from India:
https://www.mirraw.com/

I believe most of the styles would be uncomfortable for me or wouldn't meet my other clothing requirements.

But they even have long double pocket shirt suits, which might work... too bad they don't have these in all the pretty colors too:
Pathani suits

This nice multicolor fabric might be nice as a window shear:
Multicolor printed georgette saree with blouse

But the fabric is Georgette. "Originally made from silk, Georgette is made with highly twisted yarns." Hmmm, I don't do silk, and being from India it's likely to still be made from silk even if over here it might tend to be synthetic.

What does "self weaving" mean??
Men's cotton self weaving black colour sleeveless nehru jackets

Dang, ok, so I got carried away here. Now what was I doing? Oh that's right, it was an ad on Youtube; I was looking for videos of the Vermont fireball. (The fireball vids I found were bleh.)

Dang, I have too many tabs open and am still carried away.
I wonder how I'd like palazzo pants that look like a skirt? 39" long though, I'd have to sew them shorter, sigh. Ooh, per one photo it has at least one pocket. I wonder if it has one on each side and how deep they are.
Blue cotton long printed palazzo

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Let me put a link to this site too, which is fair trade:
Marketplace: Handwork of India
I used to get their catalogs before the internet was a thing; got some gorgeous items from them.

I went to a Lowes on the other side of town yesterday, as per the website that store still had 17 of an item (rubber stair treads) that was out of stock over here. When I got there, I looked all over but couldn't find the item. An employee found them for me. They were on a top shelf, above my line of sight. That's probably why that store still had so many in stock; other shoppers probably didn't see them either.

While over there, I went to an Indian grocery store I hadn't been to before. They had several interesting items.



Cumin soda! I want to see what that tastes like.

Lemongrass Basil seed drink! There were several flavors, but this was the only one that seemed to be without artificial coloring.

This morning I remembered my spice cabinet has a jar of Thai "sweet basil seed", which either my mom or I bought a long time ago in an Oriental grocery. Tiny black seeds with a mild cucumber-skin flavor. We never could figure out what to do with them. But now I've read that they can indeed be used like chia seeds, to thicken drinks or desserts. So I finally have a use for them.

Rose petal spread! I believe I bought this same thing a long time ago, and didn't remember it being particularly good. Even so, I couldn't resist, because rose petals. It does taste good, but the texture is very sticky and thick; not something easy to spread on bread.



The Sabudana Poha is tapioca flakes. I've bought that before. The flakes soften and cook much quicker than tapioca pearls, so I can make a quick pudding out of them.

The Namak Para are fried wheat-flour chips flavored with Ajowan seeds. I seem to recall having a jar of ajowan seeds in my spice cabinet at some point in time, but it's not there now. Maybe I didn't like the flavor enough to keep it. (I'd say ajowan tastes similar to oregano.) But it tastes very good in these chips.

The Gol Matthi are "fried round patties" flavored with black pepper. I haven't tried them yet. I was initially attracted by the picture on the box because they look like chocolate chip cookies. But the ingredient list does not include any sugar or sweetening, so I'm intrigued.

I avoid buying any Indian grocery items which list chili powder or even generic "spices" in the ingredients, because even what they consider very mild is too hot for me. That rules out a large portion of the items for sale, but makes my choices simpler.