East India

Now, people are, people are focused mainly on the number issue.

How many seats would we lose? How many seats would we gain? What's the difference between North India, South India, maybe Western India, Eastern India? All that is fine.

That's also very important.

But more than that, you know, delimitation also, not only does it, uh, determine the number of seats, it also determines the shape of the constituencies.

It depends on other habits.

In India, where people have, in Eastern India, there's been studies where people have like a very, very high fiber, mostly plant-based diet diet.

Two or three bowel movements a day is considered normal, you know, and like in America, it's like just like one, maybe even slightly less than one is considered normal.

It's just entirely dependent on you and your diet.

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And which one? Let's talk about which of the six and which is the one that you focus on.

So I focus on Nauga and Rajshahi, which is in Eastern India.

It is, you know, in colonial India, it's the largest contiguous cannabis cultivation zone in terms of my acreage.

But there's others.

I mean, that's the and then you mix all the other things about it.

The curry from East India, from the from Southern Asia and that being a part of the culture and becoming so much of a part of it as well.

Absolutely.

how you can make stewed chicken just by using oil and brown sugar.

That was because there were new crops, new measures that meant that health improved amongst the population, and overall, it was considered in some way something of a golden era.

But that changed quite rapidly by the early to mid-19th century, and in particular, there was one product, opium, that really shifted the dial because the British Empire, having conquered East India, uh, produced large amounts of opium from the poppies that were grown in Bengal in, in Eastern India, and China was the place that they targeted as a market for that opium.

And when the Chinese government at the time, the Qing dynasty, refused to allow the entrance of, uh, opium into the country as a whole, that really meant that China found itself in a much more difficult position.

The opium was being sold anyway, smuggled you might say, into, uh, China, and the state of the population became much more dependent in many cases on opium.

But today I wear it proudly.

And so I'm going to jump in here and say when I was 18 years old, I fell in love with a guru, an Eastern Indian guru.

And I dropped out of college where I had a four year full scholarship.

and i joined his ashram people go what's an ashram spiritual community where we focus on yoga practices i lived there tammy for 20 years from the age of 18 to 38 okay wow so um this was a pretty powerful choice on my part and it shaped and changed me in so many ways and let me just give you a few vignettes because i bet your listeners are curious like

Right.

And when we're talking brownface, we're talking like India, East India, not necessarily African.

Not

that degree of blackface.

Uh, but it's also the manifestation of the same idea of controlling and managing nature, um, no matter what the cost, right? And, and some of those costs have been in terms of human fatalities.

And in fact, there was a, an, an investigative reporting by the BBC, uh, in, uh, in, in, in a park, um, in Eastern India, where they found that in the last five years when they were doing this reporting, uh, some 40, uh, Adivasi indigenous people had been killed by these forces, uh, to protect rhinos, and there'd been, like, five rhino-- cases of rhino poaching in all those years.

Now, that is not to say that, you know, we should let those five rhinos being poached, but the point is that the poachers are still probably not being killed because they actually have some serious AK-47 kind of weapons, right? Who, who's been killed are these poor, um, Adivasis who have always called these lands as their, you know, traditional territories, and they've used it, uh, and they've stewarded it in their own sort of material engagement ways.

And so, um, one, we wanted to shed light on how far this kernel of European modernity that relies on technological innovations, uh, and ideas of protecting nature in a certain way, how far it has come, and it is justified by some conservation actors.