more than half of meghalaya's population belong to the khasi tribe. shillong's british—built polo ground, a traditional local sport is thriving — but it sure ain't polo. every afternoon, hundreds of people gather from all around to take part in a really interesting daily ritual. this is called teer, derived from the hindi word for "arrow". a target's mounted, and 50 archers have just a few minutes to hit it as many times as possible. the significance of the sport dates back to the early 1800s, when khasi warriors defended their homelands not with guns or swords, but with bows and arrows. i'm aiming for the target, obviously, which is... ..which one of them? the small one. the small one there? 0k. so, why�*s it going to the ground like that? show me. get out the way, everyone. here we go. he stammers wow! now, that... now we're getting there! now we're... now we're getting there. spectators get involved by taking bets on the number of arrows that hit the target. and, crucially, it's only the last two numbers of the total score that matter. they're all

more than half of meghalaya's population belong to the khasi tribe.rrow". a target's mounted, and 50 archers have just a few minutes to hit it as many times as possible. the significance of the sport dates back to the early 1800s, when khasi warriors defended their homelands not with guns or swords, but with bows and arrows. i'm aiming for the target, obviously, which is... ..which one of them? the small one. the small one there? 0k. so, why�*s it going to the ground like that? show me. get out the way, everyone. here we go. he stammers wow! now, that... now we're getting there! now we're... now we're getting there. spectators get involved by taking bets on the number of arrows that hit the target. and, crucially, it's only the last two numbers of the total score that matter. they're all added up. all added up. and the last two digits, that will be the result. 695 arrows. so, 95 is the result. meghalaya became one of the few states to legalise gambling in 1982. people here are very superstitious. they'll dream about their dead family, a dog, a cat, an