Zubaani: Festivals & Folklore

Welcome to Season 2 of the Zubaani podcast by nonprofit ⁠⁠⁠Peerbagh⁠⁠⁠. Season two takes a deep dive into the topic of intergenerational storytelling with writers Salma Hussain and Upasna Kakroo as cohosts.Episode 4, Season 2: Festivals & Folklore In this podcast episode, we talk about festivals and folklore from South Asia in today's times. Festivals present an easy entry point into sharing culture and the region's diversity. We also talk about folk and our cultural pasts that are all in fact changing and adapting with newer context. Books we discuss present these ideas with imaginative and inclusive new voices.Books and other trivia discussed in this episode:Archie Celebrates Diwali (Mitali Banerjee Ruths)A Vaisakhi to Remember (Simran Jeet Singh)The House Without Lights (Reem Faruqi)Mehndi Boy (Zain Bandali)The Strongest Heart (Saadia Faruqi)Farrah Noorzad and the Ring of Fate (Deeba Zargarpur)Bento's technology and connection issueTo Kill a Tiger (a film by Nisha Pahuja)Jinnealogy (Dr. Anand Taneja)Why: Research shows intergenerational storytelling is like a resource (similar to air, clean water) but it is inequitably distributed. Whether you live in the subcontinent or the diaspora, colonial rule and its subsequent conflicts have left the South Asian subcontinent wounded. There is intense loss of human stories that tell the stories of our resilience, empowerment, or those that celebrate joy.About: Peerbagh is an award-winning 501c3 nonprofit organization working with a mission to diversify bookshelves and build storytellers. The nonprofit creates storytelling events and produces the world’s only South-Asia-inspired children’s print magazine, Bento.  Episode art by Ira Nagar. Research for the expert by Imtiaz Ali.This podcast has been made with the support of the City of Austin's Elevate Grant and Michigan Humanities.