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- 2. a small, round, flat piece of bread made of unleavened wheat flour, deep-fried and served with meat or vegetables
- 5. request
- 7. a newspaper
- 11. a stick, representing a sword, used in the dandiya raas dance
- 12. a spoken parlor game played in India
- 13. a decorative mark worn in the middle of the forehead by Indian women
- 16. a combination dance style consisting of mainly Dandiya-Raas
- 18. a popular Maharashtrian stuffed sweet flatbread with a delicious filling prepared with chana dal (husked split Bengal gram) and jaggery
- 19. release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma
- 20. halua, a combination of nuts, milk, sugar, khoya and ghee with grated carrot
- 21. of, from, or characteristic of India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh
- 22. shankar poli, an Indian sweet snack popular in India, especially in north India, specifically Uttar Pradesh
- 24. a follower of Hinduism
- 27. an object or flat figure in an elongated rectangle or oval shape
- 28. a major city in Jharkhand, India, also a holy sacred place of Hinduism
- 30. a folk dance originating from the Indian state of Gujarat
- 32. an Indic language spoken mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra
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- 1. a handicraft in which yarn is made up into a patterned fabric by looping yarn with a hooked needle
- 3. another term for linseed
- 4. rangoli, an art of decoration drawn on the floor or the entrances of homes drawn in a right facing symbol clockwise
- 6. a celebration of women and empowerment in Hindu culture
- 8. the act of worship
- 9. a nontheistic religion founded in India in the 6th century BC as a reaction against the teachings of orthodox Brahmanism, and still practiced there
- 10. dowdy and old-fashioned
- 14. seeds, the fruit of the ajwain herb
- 15. a large round cooking pan used in India, similar to a wok
- 16. elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings
- 17. a semi soft, sweetish sour, whole milk product prepared from lactic fermented curd
- 23. maker, something that makes a savoury snack from india that is shaped in a spiral
- 25. a major city in Jharkhand, India and a holy sacred place of Hinduism
- 26. carpet, carpets hand-woven by the Berber people in North Africa and the Sahara
- 29. a Maharashtrian version of daal that has a distinct sweet and tangy flavour
- 31. a garment consisting of a length of cotton or silk elaborately draped around the body, traditionally worn by women from South Asia