[NIFL-ESL:10161] Re: thank you Ujwala

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Sissy,


Part of it was, I'm guessing, the linking of illiterates with physical labor.  "Illiterates" = often a code word for "trash," whoever uses it.  Then also the word "foreigners" trashed.  It resulted in kind of a cascade.  It started with the driving license!

Then there's me--I know mostly when I speak of land, labor, sunlight, rain, what plants need, root hairs, and so on...I might as well be from a different planet.  Abyss. ( Our cook in Karachi brought back back to us a giant bag of walnuts from his farm in Kashmir, so Ujwala's talk of the rural project is on exactly the right track.)

So Eugenio was angry and spoke up, I thought it was  great as I resonate to some of those same chords. Touching a person's family is like touching the third rail of politics.

Andrea



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