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Who taught her?

It is a purely Indian sub-urban market where I can find anything, such as fruits, vegetables, provision stores, pani-puri lorries, a popular chaat shop, different banks, clothing shops, and, more interestingly, a famous shop selling Rasgulla and Gulab jamun (both of which are popular in Odisha). I like the place very much. I used to go there whenever I visited Salepur with my sister-in-laws. Salepur is a district town in Odisha. Odisha is culturally very rich and the people of Odisha firmly believe in God. Here, people are not businessmen by nature, like Gujaratis. Usually, men prefer to do jobs, especially government jobs, while women do domestic work only. There is no importance to business. Even businessmen face difficulty in finding a woman for marriage. Married women rarely wear punjabi suits; they wear sarees mostly (in sub-urban and rural areas). Women do the majority of the cooking and household work. Once, I visited one shop with my sister-in-law to buy some clothes in the sa