EPISODE · Sep 10, 2023 · 50 MIN
Yours or Mine? Yours and Mine
from Kitne Dur Kitne Paas · host Priyam Moonka
In this episode, Priyam Moonka is in a cross-border conversation with Hussain Khalid, an independent creative practitioner based in Karachi, Pakistan. They discuss everything from childhood memories of Garmi ki Chutti at Nani Ghar, Ekta Kapoor Serials, the sitcom Shararat, Sanju's magic pencil in Shaka Laka Boom Boom, and Chhaiya Chhaiya toy phones to the shared heritage and coexistence of communities in Pre-partition times. Hussain talks about his ancestral home in Gujrat, West Punjab, which is a Pre-partition Gurudwara, allotted to his grandparents after they migrated from the Indian side of the border in 1947. They discuss cross-border tensions at the time of war, the baggage of generalization, the powerful state narrative of hostility, percolating into children's textbooks, and the need to counter narratives of hate with those of love and peace.
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In this episode, Priyam Moonka is in a cross-border conversation with Hussain Khalid, an independent creative practitioner based in Karachi, Pakistan. They discuss everything from childhood memories of Garmi ki Chutti at Nani Ghar, Ekta Kapoor Serials, the sitcom Shararat, Sanju's magic pencil in Shaka Laka Boom Boom, and Chhaiya Chhaiya toy phones to the shared heritage and coexistence of communities in Pre-partition times. Hussain talks about his ancestral home in Gujrat, West Punjab, which is a Pre-partition Gurudwara, allotted to his grandparents after they migrated from the Indian side of the border in 1947. They discuss cross-border tensions at the time of war, the baggage of generalization, the powerful state narrative of hostility, percolating into children's textbooks, and the need to counter narratives of hate with those of love and peace.
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