Karwaan Baithak: An online series in the memory of 75 years of India-Pakistan partition

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June 24, 2022 6:52 pm

Karwaan Baithak: Sarhad ke Iss Paar - Uss Paar

Karwaan, headed by Eshan Sharma, is one of India’s leading student’s collective working towards promoting conversations around India’s shared history and heritage. It has hosted more than 250 historians, scholars, authors and filmmakers around the globe.

Baithak – Sarhad ke Iss Paar – Uss Paar, spanning a long period of eight weeks – from 25 June to the 6 August, is being organised on Karwaan’s Youtube channel, and is hosting six different events, discussions and conversations to commemorate the 75 years of an overnight migration of thousands of people who felt like strangers in their own land.

With experts from both India and Pakistan, Karwaan Baithak will be organising the following sessions :

Discussion Topics	Speakers	Date & Time
Kya Dilli Kya Lahore : The tale of two cities	Sohail Hashmi and Ishtiaq Ahmed	25 June, Saturday 5 pm onwards
Forgotten Tales of Partition : Archiving the partition voices	Aanchal Malhotra, Anam Zakaria and Kavita Puri	3 July, Sunday 5 pm onwards
Sanjha Chulha : Impact of partition on food	Pushpesh Pant, Chef ranveer Brar and Mariyam Jilani	16 July, Sunday 5 pm onwards
Songs of Partition : Impact of partition on Music Memories	Wajiha Naqvi and Dr. Radha Kapuria	30 July, Saturday 5 pm onwards
A Common Thread : Tribute to textile	Nitin Pamnani and Sanya Dhir	23 July, Saturday 5 pm onwards
Ye Daagh Daagh Ujala : What happened to our literature?	Sukrita Paul Kumar	6 August, Saturday 5 pm onwards

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