India Has an Agency Problem - by saguna
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A few weeks ago I paid nine dollars for a golden milk latte in a café in San Francisco.
A few weeks ago I paid nine dollars for a golden milk latte in a café in San Francisco. Turmeric, oat milk, black pepper, a dusting of cinnamon, served by a barista who explained, gently, like she was letting me in on a big secret, that it has anti-inflammatory properties. The whole time I was thinking about my Dadi, who made this exact thing every time someone in the house had a cough — in a steel tumbler, for free — and which I refused to drink for the first eighteen years of my life because it was the boring medicine-drink that meant you were sick. Why did it take an American woman in…
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