{"id":3462,"date":"2015-04-01T06:29:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2015-04-16T06:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T06:13:43","slug":"the-story-starts-with-my-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"The story starts with my grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">There was this one Mr. Vadra who once dared the power of the mango (people). But much before him, I too was seduced by Mangoes. The story starts with my grandmother. Now 81 years old, but with a love for mangoes. When I was a toddler, I was allegedly rather naughty &amp; my granny used to label me in Bengali as \u201caam paka\u201d. I grudgingly settled into sobriety with age, but my association with mangoes continued. Mangoes of all types \u2013 Himsagar, Langra, Gula<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">bkhas, Alphonso, Dusseri, Chausa, Benisan, Kausar are welcome. Heck, even Sutanu is shaped like a Mango. Well if the fruit is the national fruit of three countries \u2013 India, Pakistan &amp; Philippines &amp; the tree, the national tree of Bangladesh, I guess it\u2019s good enough for me. Well a mango just cannot be a plebian \u201caam\u201d offering, even its scientific name has an elitist touch to it \u2013 Magnifera Indica. And not to talk about Mango \u2013 the fashion line. Strictly Capitalist. But back to Saree. I\u2019m wearing a saree from my grandmother, who had the saree in a shade of rich off-white tone. I took the saree &amp; wanted to marry mangoes to it. But alas, when Kaniska \u2013 a rather well known saree boutique of Kolkata \u2013 dyed &amp; printed it\u2026.they got the mild shade of Kausar right, but mixed the mango leaves to something of Chinar\u2019s. Well I live with it. After all, I also like Kashmiri Aam ka aachar\u2026.so loved by Bengalis with Dal &amp; Bhat, but made on a recipe which came from the land of Chinars.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was this one Mr. Vadra who once dared the power of the mango (people). But much before him, I too was seduced by Mangoes. The story starts with my grandmother. Now 81 years old, but with a love for mangoes. When I was a toddler, I was allegedly rather naughty &amp; my granny used&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=3462\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[285],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}