{"id":72858,"date":"2012-07-25T07:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T15:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2012-07-25T07:45:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T15:45:49","slug":"a-little-food-medicine-go-a-long-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/25\/a-little-food-medicine-go-a-long-way\/","title":{"rendered":"A little food &amp; medicine go a long way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I clicked through on the links to Zack&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/2012\/07\/25\/help-black-power-need-in-the-subcontinent-the-desi-version-telling-caste-by-picture-surname\/\">post below<\/a> and was pretty shocked. I know this somewhat, but not having grown up around many Indians (or South Asians generally) I didn&#8217;t have a good sense. That being said, a few years ago I stumbled on a book at the local book store, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B005Q87R5W\/geneexpressio-20\">Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir<\/a>. The author was an adopted woman of Indian heritage from Spain. Skimming through, her family seems to have been peasant cultivators in Maharashtra. Therefore, I was struck by her photo. <b>She is rather attractive and not &#8220;worn down&#8221; by the life of extreme subsistence.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is not to take anything away from Zack&#8217;s post, and she obviously does not look like the typical upper caste NRI even to my unsubtle eyes. But a great deal of the physical difference in terms of perception <i>is<\/i> environmental. Though I do think it is telling that a woman who looks like this could never be a leading lady in a Bollywood film.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-7600\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/miro-asha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/miro-asha.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"miro, asha\" width=\"500\" height=\"754\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7601\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Asha Miro<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd a2a_target addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brownpundits.com%2F2012%2F07%2F25%2Fa-little-food-medicine-go-a-long-way%2F&amp;title=A%20little%20food%20%26%20medicine%20go%20a%20long%20way\" id=\"wpa2a_20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I clicked through on the links to Zack&#8217;s post below and was pretty shocked. I know this somewhat, but not having grown up around many Indians (or South Asians generally) I didn&#8217;t have a good sense. That being said, a &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/2012\/07\/25\/a-little-food-medicine-go-a-long-way\/\">Continue reading <span>&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,2080,1184,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caste","category-lower-caste","category-prejudice","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72858"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74024,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72858\/revisions\/74024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}