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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

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TIL that orang-kaya means "rich man" in Indonesian—and interestingly, orang is also the root word for orangutan 🦧. What really caught my attention, though, was the kaya part. I’ve always known Kaya only as that delicious, coconut-and-egg jam-like spread we have in Singapore, but it turns out the food is actually etymologically linked to the word for wealth!

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The Nutmeg’s Curse starts in an eerily similar way to Majapahit — Herald van der Linde with Europeans on the verge of killing the locals.

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