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Resting on gingham cloth, a sugar-crusted apple pie cools on the window sill of a midwestern farmhouse. Nothing could be more American. Officially American. The Department of Defense once featured the pie in an online collection of American symbols, alongside Uncle Sam and cowboys.
Not that apples are particularly American. Apples were first domesticated in central Asia, making the journey along the Silk Road to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. Apples traveled to the western hemisphere with Spanish colonists in the 1500s in what used to be called the Columbian Exchange, but is now better understood as a vast and ongoing genocide of Indigenous people.
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From the ‘Hero of the Jungle’ to the math teacher, here are the unsung heroes of the freedom struggle
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These lesser-known freedom fighters were important dominoes that added to the momentum that was the fall of colonialism.
Celebrating India’s 70th year of independence goes hand in hand with remembering the courageous men and women who sacrificed their lives for it. More often than not, however, their names and stories become lost in the gigantic shadows of more prominent figures like Gandhi, Nehru, and Bose. But these lesser-known freedom fighters were important dominoes that added to the momentum that was the fall of colonialism.