Asma Khan
speaker
1,194 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
Asma Khan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But food for me is about identity.
It's about power.
It's about language.
And so much of the challenges that we face today...
We have not used food as one of the tools to talk about justice.
And, you know, there's things like that I will not use.
I hesitate to use, like poppy seeds in Bengal.
Poppy seeds is used a lot.
But because I did my first degree in history, I know why they're using poppy seeds.
They're using poppy seeds because the British forced the farmers on my land to grow poppy to...
get an entire population in China addicted to opium so that they could get tea for free, literally for nothing, and export it.
Their desire for tea, they used farmers, my brothers, on my land to grow.
And the problem is that when you grow, and they controlled the price.
It was a cash crop.
They controlled the price.
They had a whole department controlling the price of poppy.
The farmer had nothing to, no money left to buy food.
So his wife, the farmer's wife, poppy seeds are hard, crushed them, soaked it and crushed it.
So it filled the belly of the children.
So they ate pop, they added poppy seeds to whatever little they had.
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