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    Remembering the East African Indian expulsions: How food came to the rescue of people going through displacement & loss

    Most Indians looked down on the native Africans, even though some of the first immigrants took local wives. These early unions were paralleled in the food they made, like matoke, starchy green plantains that were baked and served with a spicy peanut curry.

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    Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s book is a memoir of growing up in Uganda and then becoming part of the diaspora of Indians expelled by Idi Amin, the country’s despotic ruler.

    In 'The Settler’s Cookbook', Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, writes about how making aloo parathas is therapeutic. When the stresses peak, of being a progressive Muslim woman activist, in a world where all these categories come in for attack, she retreats to her kitchen and gets relief in pounding potatoes and dough. Since the book came out in 2008, the world has become even more stressful. When Alibhai-Brown came to Mumbai for the Times LitFest some
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