![]() ![]() proletarian tea in the Naxalite movement, the book also contains memorable recipes from the many people she has eaten with. With wry accounts of sharing meals with Burmese and Iraqi refugees, and arguing about bourgeois vs. ![]() Muslim food, in a milieu where debate is silenced. She also addresses the present controversies over beef-eating, vegetarianism and ideas of Hindu vs. Haksar explores questions posed by food anthropologists and ecologists, and revisits debates between Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi on inter-dining. On a wider scale, she explains how our tastes and attitudes to food are shaped by caste, race, gender and class, exposing latent prejudices and bigotry. She takes us on a thoughtful journey through India, from her Kashmiri Pandit family settled in Old Delhi and Lucknow, to human-rights activism on behalf of Nagas in Manipur from grappling with feminist ideals, to considering the impact of a globalized food industry in Goa. In this memoir by an unashamed Indian, Haksar writes about how food shaped her awareness of politics, patriarchy, nationalism and socialism, from her childhood during the Nehruvian era onwards. ![]()
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