That is partly born of their latest shared suffering: “Bangles from Delhi, paan [Betel nut] for Lahore amid the ashes”, was a typical Indian newspaper headline describing the atrocity.
A Burmese family buys paan, a ground-up mixture of betel nuts and other spices wrapped in a betel leaf, from a street vendor near the Botataung Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, on Dec. 6, 2010.