Curried goat via Grace Foods (click on the link or the picture for the recipe).
For May 2018 I am going on a South Asian media diet. That means most of the books, songs, films, news, etc, that I consume will come from South Asia and its diaspora.
News:
Times of India (1838- ) – online. The largest selling English-language newspaper in the world. Comes out of Mumbai.
India Today (1975- ) – weekly news magazine very much in the style of Time in the US. Comes out of Noida, a satellite city of Delhi.
Film:
Dhadkan (2000) – a Bollywood film. I have never watched one all the way through. This one features Shilpa Shetty, who I did a post on. Even better, it is free on YouTube and dubbed in English (except the songs in Hindi, which are subtitled).
Books: I should be able to get through these in the space of a month:
Bhagavad Gita (c. -400) – best known part of Hindu scriptures. Prince Arjuna and his charioteer Lord Krishna talk about life, the universe and everything. I am reading it in the Stephen Mitchell translation.
Dhammapada (by -200) – best known of the Buddhist scriptures. Contains the traditional sayings of Buddha.
Tagore: Gitanjali (1912) – a book of 103 of his poems. It was such a hit it won him the Nobel Prize for Literature just a year later, making him the first non-White person to win.
Jhumpa Lahiri: Unaccustomed Earth (2008) – short stories. Lahiri is an Indian American writer. The New York Times Book Review named this their Best Book of the Year.
Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda: A Traveller’s History of India (2011) – I got this book in the wake of my post on books I wish I had read sooner, where I noted that Indian history is a hole in my education.
Sunil Khilnani: Incarnations (2016) – a history of India in 50 lives. Buddha, Gandhi, Tagore, Malik Ambar, and loads of people I have never heard of, which in this case is a good thing.
Music:
I am open to suggestions!
Note: As always, if you think my media diet is keeping me in the dark about something I should post on, please let me know!
Thanks!
– Abagond, 2018.
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Not a fan of Indian cuisine but that curried goat looks delicious. That’s presentation of that dish is very appetizing. I would probably try that, I remember in Jamaica they had curried goat.
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I am willing to open my mind to read and learn. This looks like so good literature from a culture and a people I have been closed minded about.
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Typo: This list looks like some literature I would be willing to open my mind to.
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I had curried goat at an Indian restaurant, I was skittish but it was not too bad!
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The Bhagavad Gita is something i only have rudimentary knowledge of. I thought it was one of the holy books of the Hindu.
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The Bhagavad Gita is something i only have rudimentary knowledge of. I thought it was one of the holy books of the Hindu.i
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One type of classical South Asian music I’ve always found intriguing is the raga, which emphasizes improvisation.
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Any specifically US media that focus the South Asian diaspora, or the issues surrounding them in the US?
This is, after all, Asian Pacific AMERICAN Heritage Month.
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@Jefe: I suggested a post on the Rohingya people wouldn’t they be apart of the South Asian diaspora?
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@MB
In order to have a diaspora, the people have to get spread around the world. That probably has not been happening for a long enough period to the Rohingya to form a sustainable diaspora. They are probably still mostly in the status of refugees. Once they settle elsewhere and either form families or businesses or take up employment, then maybe we can refer to them as a diaspora.
Myanmar is usually grouped with SE Asia, but the Rohingya originally migrated from what is now Bangladesh, so I guess we can refer to them as a South Asian group.
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Sorry, I should qualify that.
Since the Rohingya were not native to Myanmar prior to the British colonial period, technically, they did for a diaspora within Myanmar.
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The Trouble With Apoo by Hari Kondonolou. Would be a good post.
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Typo: Hari Kondabolo^^
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Typo: Hari Kondabolo^^
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@Mary;
I love curry, I could eat it seven days a week, Indian and Thai in particular!
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@ Herneith: I like Thai, I don’t like the smell of curry but that photograph of the curried goat looks delicious. That is a beautiful food presentation.
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The impact of curry and other influences from India on Jamaican cuisine and other food in the Americas would be an interesting post too.
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Dhammapada is a Theravada branch of buddhism, which is practiced mostly outside of India.
For deeper understanding of Mahayana buddhism, which is an elder branch, I would suggest Heart Sutra (as a light version source) or Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakosa (a hard version source).
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