East West Education Indian Vignettes

**This little village cafe serves up Samosas, hot from the frying pan**
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**A curtain flaps in the breeze as a house is decorated for a family wedding.**
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**Traditional Designs painted freehand on the walls of a Cottage**
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A famous temple in Puri is crowded with worshippers...
Note the decorative carvings on the Temple doors, and the icon of the God in whose honor this Temple was built.
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**The extended family of Basanti,** **a trainee seamstress at the Palli Unnayan Seva Samiti, Orissa, where the Kurta Pyjamas and Lungi outfits are sewn.**
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The bicycle in the forefront is an important means of village transport.

**Detail from a freehand wall painting:**
**Symbols of prosperity for a wedding, banana leaves, a coconut, betel nut leaves and a pot with some rice.**
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