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Kitaab: Books in Discussion The Flavours of Nationalism: Recipes for Love, Hate and Friendship By Nandita Haksar Human rights lawyer, teacher, campaigner and writer
August 11, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Kitaab: Books in Discussion
The Flavours of Nationalism: Recipes for Love, Hate and Friendship
By
Nandita Haksar
Human rights lawyer, teacher, campaigner and writer
Saturday | 11 August 2018 | 11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Organised by The International Centre Goa
Discussant:
Diviya Kapur, Literati Bookshop & Cafe
Chair:
Dr. Pushkar, Director, ICG
Entry free & open to general public
Nandita Haksar is a human rights lawyer, teacher, campaigner and writer. She is the author of several books including The Judgement That Never Came: Army Rule in Northeast India (with Sebastian Hongray) (2011); Across the Chicken Neck: Travels in Northeast India (2013) and The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism: From the Cold War to the Present Day (2015).
In The Flavours of Nationalism, a memoir, Nandita Haksar writes about how food shaped her awareness of politics, patriarchy, nationalism and socialism. 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. The book explores questions posed by food anthropologists and ecologists, and revisits debates between Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi on inter-dining. Haksar also addresses controversies over beef-eating, vegetarianism and ideas of Hindu vs. Muslim food. At the heart of the book is the following question: if Indians cannot imagine sitting with each other and sharing food with a sense of equality and respect, how then can a national unity be built?
