BBCNEWS Breakfast June 4, 2024 05:43:00
Meghalaya became one of the few states to legalise gambling in 1982. people here are very superstitious. they'll dream about their dead family, a dog, a cat, and they'll try to make it into numbers. so, i have 200 rupees of my hard—earned money here. i want to go and gamble. can you show me how to do it? yeah. come on, then. so, let's go to one of these counters. speaks in khasi namaste, hello. hello, sir. i want to gamble on, erm...a lucky number, yeah? yeah. two digits, lucky number. i'm going to go for... ..39. 39? yeah. and i'm going to put... 100. ..100 rupees on 39. on 39. oh, and then...