If you lived out in the countryside, what are the few things that you would need?

Today we went out to the countryside and saw how Indians lived with very little.

Cooking: In the countryside there isn’t time to go into town and buy food to cook, so they grow their own grain in the fields surrounding their houses. Each family has their own fields and harvests everything so that they have millet to make chapatis. We watched a woman make some of those by the following steps: mix water with the flour-like millet, knead the gray dough until it becomes soft, roll it into a ball and then flatten, put on the fire and let it cook. My mother experimented with that and found that it is harder than it looks.

Opium: For those of you who don’t know, opium is an illegal drug, but today we saw some of it in the house of a village tribesman. He said (via translation) that at festivals, they mashed up opium with water and everyone drank. He offered me some, but I declined.