{"id":719,"date":"2019-05-04T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T00:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2019-06-08T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T21:33:00","slug":"india-1978-the-beggar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/india-1978-the-beggar\/","title":{"rendered":"Inde 1978 \u2013 Le Mendiant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Extrait non \u00e9dit\u00e9 de mes m\u00e9moires \u2013 \u00a92019 Sylvaine Francine\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sur le trottoir, un commer\u00e7ant affair\u00e9 vend des assiettes. Le bhel est mon plat \u00e9pic\u00e9 et croquant pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9\u00a0: des nouilles s\u00e8ches sur un lit de l\u00e9gumes, le tout surmont\u00e9 de quelques crackers plats qui peuvent servir de couverts. \u00c7a rend le d\u00eener facile et\u2026 savoureux. Je demande du th\u00e9. La boisson chaude \u00e9liminera, je l&#039;esp\u00e8re, toutes les bact\u00e9ries et tous les virus.<\/p>\n<p>Un mendiant s&#039;approche, un bras tendu, la main ouverte. Il porte l&#039;autre main \u00e0 sa bouche, doigts joints, indiquant qu&#039;il a faim. Il marmonne quelques mots, passe d&#039;un commer\u00e7ant \u00e0 l&#039;autre. On lui dit de s&#039;\u00e9loigner. Il marche lourdement, puisant en lui la force de continuer. Avec le th\u00e9 chaud d\u00e9j\u00e0 dans ma main, je ne peux pas ouvrir mon sac \u00e0 main ni mon portefeuille, sans risquer de renverser du th\u00e9 br\u00fblant sur quelqu&#039;un. Le mendiant s&#039;approche. Ses v\u00eatements, aussi sales que le sol sur lequel nous nous tenons, son regard appelle un peu de compassion. La femme \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de moi commande une assiette pour lui. Elle paie le prix fort pour une assiette que le commer\u00e7ant ne remplit pas compl\u00e8tement. Reconnaissant, le mendiant joint les mains sur son c\u0153ur et la remercie. Il les ouvre \u00e0 plat devant lui et lui adresse ses b\u00e9n\u00e9dictions dans une langue que je ne connais pas encore.<\/p>\n<p>Chaque jour, dans ce pays, j&#039;apprends de personnes bienveillantes que la pauvret\u00e9 et la faim sont la responsabilit\u00e9 de tous. Des personnes bienveillantes comme cette femme t\u00e9moignent de l&#039;int\u00e9r\u00eat que porte la communaut\u00e9 aux pauvres. Tout le monde ne d\u00e9tourne pas le regard. L&#039;humanit\u00e9 est vivante.<\/p>\n<p><em> Photo\u00a0: Adiyogi de Morguefile.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unedited excerpt of my memoir &#8211; \u00a92019 Sylvaine Francine\u00a0 \u00a0 On the sidewalk, a busy shopkeeper sells plates of food. Bhel is my favorite crunchy spicy foodstuff: dry noodles on a bed of vegetables, topped by some flat crackers which can be used as silverware. It makes dinner easy and\u2026 tasty. I ask for some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-book-blog","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/the-beggar-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/the-beggar-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Sylvaine Francine","author_link":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/author\/sylvaine\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/the-beggar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylvainefrancine.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}