India, April 10 -- .in the Khasi universe, rice yields unending gifts - among them a vast variety of jingbam dih sha, or kpu - traditional snacks made with a number of indigenous rice varieties like khawmynri, khaw Manipur, khawpnah, and local red rice, often paired with morning tea. Rice cakes are popular across the Northeast and eastern India as a breakfast item - from Assam's bowl-shaped tekeli pitha, a layered treat of rice, jaggery, and coconut scrapings, steamed, tied in damp muslin or cheesecloth, and set in the mouth of tea kettles, sold out of roadside stalls, or the pancake like kholasapori pitha, also called hazarmukhi, perhaps after the innumerable air holes that pop up on its surface like a thousand mouths opening, to the Miz...