Meghna Grocery: Pembina Highway Strip Mall

Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute Dept: In the corner of a Pembina Highway strip mall, between a Value Village and a Domino's Pizza outlet, a Bangladeshi food store called Meghna Grocery stocks 192 varieties of spices, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Nizamuddin Khan, owner of Meghna Grocery: "I used to know everyone who walked in here. Now I see faces I don't recognize." JOHN WOODS / Enlarge Image The Bhangra Syndicate dance team performs during the 34th annual Raunak Show at Jubilee Place. The cultural showcase of talent was performed at Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute by various cultures throughout South Asia, and put on by the University of Manitoba Indian Students Association earlier this month. There are rows of plastic bags containing cumin, coriander, fenugreek, chile and turmeric, the basic ingredients for what Westerners call curry powder. There are boxes of the fragrant mixtures known as garam masala and panch phoron. Enlarge Image (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.