TY - JOUR AU - Caesar, Gopa Biswas PY - 2017/08/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Long Lost Lore of a ‘Land’ Called Home JF - Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication JA - Stream VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.21810/strm.v9i1.245 UR - https://journals.sfu.ca/stream/index.php/stream/article/view/245 SP - 14-19 AB - <p>I grew up in a household that crossed boundaries.And as a result, I faced relentless questions from my classmates, their parents, my neighbors, local shopkeepers, even pedestrians. Asking uncom-fortable questions tominority people like “why don’t you eat beef?” or “why don’t your men under-go circumcisions?” or “why do you give sambar to your lentil soup?”is normal in Bangladesh, where I live. I was taught to overlook these questions—to know them as rhetorical queries, to which there can be no sane reply. What justified the casual insults hurled at me as a representative of a minority?</p> ER -