It may seem an odd way to greet visitors, but the Bishnoi villagers of western Rajasthan are just being polite when they offer you a swig of opium.
Which of course makes it churlish to refuse not least because the ceremony performed by this isolated community is something to behold in itself.
My host takes a tray of dry opium and other secret ingredients in a copper bowl. He adds water very slowly , not a drop more than necessary, and after filtering it several times through a sieve, the precious mixture is mixed with tobacco and is smoked as a cultural ritual. For more read my blog: http://louisjk.com/http/louisjkblogspotcom/
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