{"id":35189,"date":"2021-08-14T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/aug\/14\/avni-doshi-on-summer-in-mumbai"},"modified":"2021-08-14T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T06:00:32","slug":"avni-doshi-on-summer-in-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35189","title":{"rendered":"Avni Doshi on summer in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Burnt Sugar author remembers summer 2007, when her grandmother arrived to help her set up home \u2013 and teach her some life lessons<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Read other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/series\/summer-in-the-city\">authors on their memorable urban summers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She arrives with a small suitcase and several jute bags filled with food. Fried onions, pickles, dinner for tonight and lunch the following day. On the drive over, she picked up a crusty loaf of brun pav to go with her homemade jam. My mother has told her I need help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to set up your kitchen,\u201d my grandmother says. She\u2019s on a mission. She\u2019s discussed it with her daughter and they\u2019ve agreed that, left to my own devices, I\u2019d continue on with two pots and a toaster for as long as I have this apartment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/aug\/14\/avni-doshi-on-summer-in-mumbai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burnt Sugar author remembers summer 2007, when her grandmother arrived to help her set up home \u2013 and teach her some life lessons\u2022 Read other authors on their memorable urban summersShe arrives with a small suitcase and several jute bags filled with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,71,77,311,62,78,454,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-family","category-food","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-mumbai","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35190,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35189\/revisions\/35190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}