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If you take an interest in yoga, Indian dances, Bollywood films or simply went to India once and fell in love with it forever, this shop is just for you. Recently opened in Pozniaki area, Ganga has everything to make you and your home look a little moreIndian.

You can start by trying on a silk sari – traditional wear of Indian women (Hr 450), and choose one of various clanking colorful bracelets, both to wear around you wrists and ankles (from Hr 20). Get many as you wish – according to Indian fashion rules, there can never be too much jewelry. To complete your outfit, add a colorful scarf (Hr 250), light baggy trousers with ethnic ornaments and a real Indian tunic.

For decorating your apartment in the Indian style, you can get vases, statues of various gods, and some truly original “singing bowls” – mortars with pestles. You have to move the pestle inside the mortar to make a deep, unusual sound. Those are used for rituals, for clearing water and auras, but they can serve as musical instruments as well.

For a real Indian, feel you’ll surely need to cook some Indian food. Buy special Indian rice, various spices and black salt for Hr 25 (a cool thing to place on the table to impress your friends). Certainly, you will need authentic Indian tea (Hr 120) and silver-plated tea sets to serve it in. To remove the smell of food after cooking and create an atmosphere, there is, of course, a selection of incense (from Hr 5). Ganga shop assistants assure that all their original items are delivered straight from India.

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Karavan shopping center (12 Luhova, 331-4776). Open daily 10 p.m. till to a.m.

Metrohrad(Gifts Gallery, 5/1 Chervonoarmiyska, 587-6709). Open daily 10 a.m. till 9 p.m.

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