sweetmeat

Pilgrims purchase coconuts, sweetmeats, flowers, and incense for their ritualistic offerings.

Gifting new clothes and sweetmeats is a key part of the celebrations.

Media footage showed a man feeding the convicts sweetmeat outside the jail after touching the feet of one of them, a mark of respect.

While my parents devoted their time and energy to the service, I daydreamed about the forthcoming sweetmeat, a symphony of tabla and harmonium scoring my reverie.

And yet even my mighty sweet tooth has met its match in the form of a cinematic sweetmeat: “To All the Boys: Always and Forever.”