Meghalaya Fridge Magnet | Handcrafted Wooden Souvenir | Stickerji

For someone who has crossed one of Meghalaya's living root bridges — footbridges grown over generations by training the roots of rubber fig trees across a river, a technique found nowhere else in India — this is the right souvenir to bring home. The state is also home to Mawsynram and Cherrapunji, which between them rank among the wettest places on Earth by average rainfall, and to the Khasi and Garo communities, whose matrilineal traditions mean lineage and inheritance pass through the mother's line, a rarity in India.

Cut from wood, magnet-backed, this piece holds up well on a fridge door. This one is well suited to anyone who has actually walked across a Cherrapunji or Mawlynnong root bridge, or to a gift for someone who'd simply appreciate Meghalaya's rare matrilineal traditions.