From Koraput’s Coffee To Bihar’s Sattu: What’s Inside The BRICS Delhi Media Kit?

There is a special media kit being handed over to the journalists covering the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi. India’s Ministry of External Affairs has packed the kit with traditional food items like sattu, coffee and handcrafted products to show off India’s rich culture. Here’s what’s included in the kit.

BRICS Delhi Media Kit Includes India’s Regional Food Products 

Some regional food items and handcrafted products showing India’s rich heritage have now found their way into the BRICS Delhi media kit. According to The Tribune, the special kit does not have the usual boring stuff but contains earthy sattu and makhana from Bihar, coffee grown in the hills of Koraput, Odisha and intricate handicrafts from Gujarat.

The kit is put together by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to show off India’s regional food and culture to the international media through products sourced from different states. Sattu, which is consumed as a drink, represents Bihar’s culinary heritage, while makhana represents the state’s agriculture and food products.

Coffee from Koraput represents Odisha’s growing coffee landscape, while Gujarat’s handicrafts help showcase its artisanal traditions and craftsmanship.

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Odisha Miniature Artist Carves BRICS Leaders In Chall 

The media kit at the BRICS Summit in Delhi definitely shows India’s rich diversity. Vasudev Ravi, OSD, PR, MEA, shared with ANI that the kit is described as ‘India Story’. For this initiative, the MEA partnered with three state governments to showcase traditional foods.

In other news, a young miniature artist, K Bijay Kumar Reddy, from Odisha has taken creativity to the next level by carving BRICS leaders in tiny chalk. The chalk portraits of the leaders of the five founding BRICS nations: India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and China stand at roughly one centimetre.

According to Odisha Bytes, making these miniatures of Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Russia President Vladimir Putin, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China President Xi Jinping and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa took nearly a month of continuous effort, patience and precision. Moreover, the miniature chalk art is going viral online and is earning a lot of praise from social media users.

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The BRICS Summit 2026 will be held in Delhi at Bharat Mandapam on September 12 and 13.

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