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    INTIMATE STRANGERS

    Feb 01, 2020 2 minutes
    By Lawrence Liang

    It would be difficult to estimate the number of plates of Hakka noodles consumed in India, but it would be safe to assume that the number would be large. This in sharp contrast to the number of Indians of Chinese origin who remain in India. The majority of them belong to the Hakka community from whom the dish borrows its name and it is worth recalling to the . In the world of modern nation-states, this ethic is translated into a legal axis of the citizen and the alien, and the contemporary turbulence in India testifies to how laws of citizenship may violently displace people, rendering them as legal strangers or aliens.

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