Shopping in Northeast States
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Iew Duh
This vast market is one of the most animated in the north-east. Thousands of Khasi tribes-people flock in from their villages, selling everything from tribal baskets to fish traps and edible frogs.
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Street Market
A Saturday street market sprawls along the street with village women offering fruit, vegetables, maybe a dead pig, fish and live hens in individualised wickerwork carry-away baskets.
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Emporium Crafts Centre Shop
The Emporium Crafts Centre, a government organisation teaching the indigenous crafts of weaving, carpet making and bell-metal casting, sells its work in its shop.
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Northeast Network
This NGO seeds self-help projects in rural villages including several handloom-weaving cooperatives. Buying beautiful (and good-value) cottons here supports this fine work.
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Central Market
At the fascinating if tiny central market, tribal people sell such ‘edible’ delicacies as borol (wriggling hornet grubs) .
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PL Traders
PL Traders opposite the turning up to the Tourist Lodge, sells handicrafts and traditional clothing (including gurdam ).
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Artfed
Well stocked with bargain bamboo crafts, wickerwork and many a carved rhino. Several nearby shops specialise in Assam’s famous golden-toned silks.
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National Book Agency
Stocks Lonely Planet guides, Indian and English-language fiction.
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