{"id":523,"date":"2026-05-28T23:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srabond.wordpress.com\/2026\/05\/28\/the-exotican-diary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:32:05","slug":"the-exotican-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/the-exotican-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exotican Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at that!!<br \/>What an exotic creature this post colonial world has brought into the post modern world!<br \/>Look at the representation, I didn&#8217;t change the location, yet the location has itself changed. Within that, I lost my sense of identity myself. For which, I am constantly trying to recreate and rediscover myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t just lose myself, but also the sense of time, space and belonging. Yet the irony is that I have become restless to find myself, and where I belong. Neither could I fit myself anywhere, nor could I be a part of any community to it&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the irony is that as a Bengali boy, I am trying to be an English man in the Western world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new half-caste is on the rise\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/srabond.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fb_img_17800038173625679257053347010124.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-293\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at that!!What an exotic creature this post colonial world has brought into the post modern world!Look at the representation, I didn&#8217;t change the location, yet the location has itself changed. Within that, I lost my sense of identity myself. For which, I am constantly trying to recreate and rediscover myself. I didn&#8217;t just lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[99],"tags":[102,118],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-stories","tag-srabonsmigratorydays","tag-theexoticandiary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}