meghalaya became one of the few states to legalise gambling in 1982.heir dead family, a dog, a cat, and they will try to make it into numbers. so i have 200 rupees of my hard—earned money here. i want to go and gamble. can you show me how to do it? yeah. come on then. so let's go to one of these counters. namaste, hello. hello to you, sir. i want to gamble on a lucky number, yeah? yeah. two digits, lucky number. i want to go for 39. 39? yeah. and i'm going to put... 100. ..100 rupees on 39. can you fix it so i win? all chuckle. it depends on your fortune number. it depends on my fortune? i had a dream last night. i had a dream that... you can dream anything. that a strange dog walked past me and that dog had the number 39 on it. is it the kind of dreams people have? oh, who knows. wish me luck! it's a tense moment as the numbers are counted... 310, 320... ..and my dream turns out to be a shaggy dog story. seven... 97 was the result. still, two of my lucky numbers — nine and seven. rajan in india, back in 2017. well, that's all for this week, but here's