2025年12月16日、インドのビハール州に、村も村会も「ビンディ(オクラ)」という名で、住民の身分証にもすべてそう書かれている村がある。16 December 2025 — In Bihar, India, there is a village — and a village council — named Bhindi, the word for okra, and it is written on every resident's ID.

About twenty-five kilometres from the district headquarters of Samastipur in the eastern Indian state of Bihar lies a village named Bhindi. Bhindi is the word for okra, and the village council, or panchayat, bears the same name. As a result, the word appears on the ration cards and Aadhaar identity cards of all the residents. The village, in Morwa Block, is divided into two parts, Harpur Bhindi and Bashi Bhindi.

And, true to the name, almost all the fields here are okra fields. One farmer said okra makes up seventy-five per cent of the crop, and that if you want to see okra growing you should come after January, when okra is everywhere you look. The village has 9,182 people in about 1,750 households, most of them of the Kushwaha community, who are associated with vegetable farming. No one knows how the name came about, but the place has long been known for okra.

Another farmer said about 1,400 people grow okra and ninety per cent of the farmers grow nothing else. Okra is cultivated on more than two hundred bighas, with yields of sixty to eighty quintals an acre. The crop is sent to Muzaffarpur and Vaishali and to the Motipur vegetable market, well known in north Bihar. In the market, residents say, you can hear traders calling bids for okra from Bhindi village.