{"id":5610,"date":"2007-05-19T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2007-05-19T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T11:44:00","slug":"religion-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/religion-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_WThea-xa-Jw\/Rij2WVjJG3I\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/FfzM0l0TQNY\/s1600-h\/books.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Religion and identity\" title=\"Naresh Fernandes interviews Robin David\">In an interview by Naresh Fernandes<\/a>, Robin David, a journalist from the Bene Israeli Jewish community who has just written a book set in Gujarat called <i>City of Fear<\/i>, says something very interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>NF<\/b>: How does your position as having been born as a member of a tiny minority influence the way you see the world?<\/p>\n<p><b>RD<\/b>: Because I am neither a Hindu, nor a Muslim, and because I don&#8217;t even fit into the Jewish community easily, there are times when I feel totally integrated into Gujarati society. And there are times when I feel like a complete alien.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The interview jpeg was via David&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/cityoffearblog.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Robin David's blog\">here<\/a>. And I got there <a href=\"http:\/\/indianwriting.blogsome.com\/2007\/05\/19\/city-of-fear\/\" title=\"India Writing -- Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta\">via Uma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_WThea-xa-Jw\/Rij2WVjJG3I\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/FfzM0l0TQNY\/s1600-h\/books.jpg\" title=\"Naresh Fernandes interviews Robin David\">In an interview by Naresh Fernandes<\/a>, Robin David, a journalist from the Bene Israeli Jewish community who has just written a book set in Gujarat called <i>City of Fear<\/i>, says something very interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>NF<\/b>: How does your position as having been born as a member of a tiny minority influence the way you see the world?<\/p>\n<p><b>RD<\/b>: Because I am neither a Hindu, nor a Muslim, and because I don&#8217;t even fit into the Jewish community easily, there are times when I feel totally integrated into Gujarati society. And there are times when I feel like a complete alien.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The interview jpeg was via David&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/cityoffearblog.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Robin David's blog\">here<\/a>. And I got there <a href=\"http:\/\/indianwriting.blogsome.com\/2007\/05\/19\/city-of-fear\/\" title=\"India Writing -- Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta\">via Uma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Religion and identity - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/religion-and-identity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Religion and identity - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In an interview by Naresh Fernandes, Robin David, a journalist from the Bene Israeli Jewish community who has just written a book set in Gujarat called City of Fear, says something very interesting: NF: How does your position as having been born as a member of a tiny minority influence the way you see the world? 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