Stock Photo - A tribal Khashia girl preparing betel leaves for sale at her house in Sangram Pungi, a Khashia village, near Jaflong in Sylhet district Betel leaf or ´paan´ is a tropical creeper belonging to the pepper family of plants The Aryans called it tambula and the Arabs tambul People chew it to sweeten the breath and colour crimson the lip and tongue and also to have some narcotic pleasure Normally, paan is chewed with lime paste chun and areca nut or betel nut supari Many eat paan mixing it with additional elements such as coriander, seed, cinnamon, cardamoms and manifold flavoured dusts Goainghat, Jaflong, Sylhet, Bangladesh October 19, 2007

Stock Photo: A tribal Khashia girl preparing betel leaves for sale at her house in Sangram Pungi, a Khashia village, near Jaflong in Sylhet district Betel leaf or 'paan' is.

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