Tuesday, January 4, 2022

standing with Indian farmers


... that's South Asian Indian food, not Navajo tacos.  For years now, there have been a growing number of Indian restaurants attached to gas stations on US interstates (I once had a very good plate of dal on I-40 near Cuba, heading west), feeding the growing number of Indian truck drivers.  We stopped here for gas today - outside of Barstow, on I-40 again - and though it smelt wonderfully of Indian spices, the food vats didn't look exactly tempting, even had we been looking for lunch, rather than gas and a rest room.  But what was interesting was the sign in the window: "We stand with Indian farmers" - in other words, a profoundly anti-Modi gesture, aligning themselves with protests again big agri-commerce.  Whether or not this is a political position shared with many, or even a majority, of their customers, I don't know, but it was a welcome principled stance in the middle of a very barren stretch of California.

 

No comments:

Post a Comment