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In this conversation, memoirist, food writer, and social justice activist Madhushree Ghosh will discuss how the British Raj converted food production into indigo production in colonial India, the effect of this on 19th century Bengal (where her ancestors come from) and how food--in particular, chai--became a symbol of activism, rebellion, and a carrion call for independence. She will use examples from her award-winning food narrative memoir, Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family to illustrate how food represents the indentured, the colonized, and the immigrants.
Madhushree will enable an audience-centric discussion on how food travels through immigration, migration, and indenture and how crops like Blue Gold/Indigo and tea (in Assam and Darjeeling) were a symbol of systematic colonial practices by the British in effect, pushing us to ask, "What is truly authentic?" |
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