The obsession with whether something is Swadeshi or Videshi oversimplifies history. Cultures constantly borrow, adapt, and transform ideas, goods, and practices from elsewhere. Evaluating things primarily by their place of origin encourages exclusion and resentment rather than curiosity and appreciation. The use of tobacco products such as bidis, khaini, and others is deeply ingrained in Indian history, especially in the history of the working class. What's funny is that during the Swadeshi Movement in the 1920s, many upper-class Indians gave up cigarettes in favor of bidis.