Aam Aadmi, Khas Identity

There is a revealing asymmetry in the way Indians relate to their foods. Dishes inspire loyalty. Recipes inspire argument. Ingredients inspire, at best, preference.

But the mango, the aam, inspires something that has no clean category in the sociology of taste. It inspires selfhood. And selfhood, once attached to a fruit, is a clinical condition masquerading as culture.

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