So, from the hospital straight to the burning ghat she went. What else remained of her body that could burn?

Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe’s Father Cabraal’s Recipe for Love Cake, set across two timelines, one in the early-colonial moment of the late-seventeenth century and the other in the contemporary twenty-first century, explores the violence embedded in colonial food pathways and the indelible residue they have left upon postcoloniality.