बटवारे का सदमा पीढ़ियों तक नहीं जाता | Bhawna Khattar | Kintu Parantu with Sheeba
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Bhawna Khattar is an eternal romantic who wants to erase agony from the collective memory of all.
Her research is focused on exploring the connections between family histories and memories and the popular national history and memory in postcolonial India.
There can be many ways of understanding the collective history of the nation states - one can study the documents produced by the State, constitutional debates, national archives, even letters from the popular figures.
There has been a shift in the social sciences to understand the larger socio-cultural phenomena and to study the ‘everyday’ history and metanarratives that shape the everyday.
The Partition narratives are an interesting space to do this because there is a clear break in the family history due to a cataclysmic event and it has literally physically changed things in terms of how cities and landscapes were created. We generally talk about the violence associated with Partition but in the long run, intergenerationally, it’s many more things to do with one’s identity that can provide more insights into how the minds of ‘citizens’ in modern states function and how their perceptions are formed.
Let us explore with her how the personal Is political.
Scholars have suggested in their work that national histories act to frame and guide family stories, even filling the “forgotten spaces of our autobiographies” and it is critical to study of the present and understanding people’s attitudes for the decisions they take and the ‘othering’ they do and the belonging they feel.
Too complex? Yes! Yet let us face it!
So...
A tonne of people have been asking me for years to do something of my own.
Well, this is what I came up with.
I am here to talk about everything under the sun, above the sun.
It is a platform to showcase the most remarkable- an ordinary human, full of joy, pain, frustration and hope because it is important to record what one thinks about the times one exists.
If you have a story inside or around you, we are all ears.
Partition hona tha, ho gaya. Dukhon ko yaad karne se dukh badhte hain. But aap ne bahot hi shandar tarike se partition ko discuss kiya. Naye tariqe se partion pe baat hui. Nafrat ka kahin ziqar nahi kiya Ms Khttar ne, woh mohtarma tariff k kabil hai. Aap ne sawalat bhi itne khubsurat andaz meiin kiye k naftat ki koi gunjaish hi nahi rahi. Aap ki apni research, khubsurat alfaz and adaigi bhi ba-kamal.. Mashallah.
Regards
The studio, music and the whole deco is so charismatic.
Many Congratulations 🎊 to the production team 👏
Sheeba Ji, you summed up the entire idea of nationalist history by saying that 'tareekh' is the real 'akhara'. A much needed conversation. I loved how you arrived at a possible solution that the terrain of brokenness and trauma hold the power to unite the communities.
Unlike Bhawna Khattar's grandparents, mine were very vocal about their memories of Gurgaon and Delhi. They kept the cities close to their heart. So much so that they always rejected the idea of moving abroad by saying 'Ab aik aur Hijrat nahee hogi' (Another migration is not possible now).
Khattar's research to unlock the silences surrounding personal histories is truly admirable.
Thank you for sharing that, Maria. It’s a phenomenon that has so many layers because human experience, especially the ones such as displacement and migration have so many layers. The sharing of these stories is critical even before we begin processing them in the larger context of history and politics. They need to be acknowledged.
It gives dimension to my thought process.
Wonderful 🎉
Sheebaji I like u as a political analyst. As anchor this is ur first show I think
I always say that cities reside in people and not the other way around because we have seen a whole generation longing for the land of their childhood, youth, friendship and love.
I liked the conversational style and its academic content. Both of you may please look at genetics. Both of you need to elaborate on the process. Perhaps it is not possible in this format in one session. Hv one more session.
Ek alag hi waqt ki baat hain
Woh farsi mein khilate rahe....main urdu mein khati rahi.
Ye zabardast tha.
Nafrat zyada andhi hoti hai....yaqeenan.