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Pakistan defeated India. I don't know what to write here.
Things discussed in this episode:
00:00 Intro
00:25 Our new brand: “Kya Faida”
04:04 Rizwan swats his plans for Swat
School Talk:
10:04 Aitchison, roaming teachers, Abrar-ul-Haq
14:09 Schools have reopened, Rizwan goes to pre-school
20:16 Pakistani Men Review
30:18 Fashion & NFT intermission+
Barbershop tales
31:27 Samson’s Spa Day
34:02 Tabyat Fresh
35:38 Audience stories - armpits, horse feet, Ghajini, revenge hair-wax
39:06 Salon Scam Supernova
44:16 Audience stories - Anti-customer service, Jockey underwear
Ali Rants
47:30 Slow people
50:28 Happy people & public singalongs
52:11 Choreographed shaadi dances need to be banned
1:01:14 Rizwan’s Rasm Reorganizations
1:04:50 Catching up with our fitness journeys
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Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan
Ahmer's back! After saving the music industry in our last chat, this time round we're talking about how to save the food discourse in Pakistan. Specifically with regards to his piece on biryani in Karachi, and how it most definitely is the best city for it in the world and why. This episode is all about how his expansive piece with the Fifty Two came into being. The thought process, the many forms the idea took, the actualization process and the many learnings. The chapters are a bit different for this one since Ahmer, and perhaps this situation too, doesn't lend itself to short bits of conversation. But we have made chapters nonetheless for your benefit, dear consumer of content.
Things discussed in this episode:
00:00 Intro
02:47 Talking about our previous episode, and how this one came around
05:29 How the idea came about.
- Ahmer's exile from Karachi & Islamabad's Savor pulao
- Developing an approach: Mapping Karachi, 8 islands each with their own ethno-cultures
- Food-media on the internet, the initial plan with BBC Urdu, getting in touch with FiftyTwo
- Moving back to Karachi, reductive views of city, its muddled histories
- How long the idea's been percolating and how it is about the city more than just the dish
- The diversity in the people spoken to and how talking about their biryani gives an insight into their communities too
- Historical accounts of the introduction of proto-biryani concepts via Arab traders
- The original residents of the city & region
25:49 How did he decide which places to include?
- Wanting to include diversity in communities and types of biryani
- People he wanted to get but couldn't
- Wanting to cover as much of the city as possible
- Visibility of things in the “mainstream” vs on the perceived fringes
33:28 The differences in how people interviewed talked about their work
- Variances in history & language
- People in Pakistan having trouble articulating their own expertise with their crafts
41:47 Ali tries unsuccessfully to put an umbrella on food, music, art, culture.
- Nostalgia
- The food industry and its rapid changes
- Karhai and Biryani examples of ethnic foods gone mainstream & multicultural
49:36 Was everything he learned during the process within expectations or revelatory?
- The feeling of finally accomplishing something he’d been aiming to do for years
53:53 Does he plan to do more pieces on food in the near future, and how people should try and engage with such topics at a deeper level beyond bants
58:04 Outro
LINKS:
The article: https://fiftytwo.in/story/rice-fat-meat-streets/
Ahmer's Twitter: https://twitter.com/karachikhatmal
The story mapped out: https://twitter.com/karachikhatmal/status/1448894281998127120
The original Urdu dialogues: https://twitter.com/karachikhatmal/status/1448916463574831131
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Sparsh Ahuja is on the show! Photographer, documentary film-maker and all around chill guy, Sparsh joins us to talk about Project Dastaan. Stories from the Partition, reconnecting people who lived through those times with their homes left behind, talking about our own diaspora identities, his own trip to Pakistan, and about telling stories that don't fit neatly into boxes.
Check out the links below for where you can get more information about the work!
Things discussed in this episode:
00:00 Intro
03:13 Why we wanted to get Sparsh on
05:52 Talking about diaspora identity and going “back home”
12:55 How did his parents change as a result of leaving India
16:55 His grandparent’s relationships with their pre and post Partition homes
27:07 General narratives in India around why Pakistan was formed
33:07 His shockingly easy visa process and the trip to his ancestral village
44:13 Project Dastaan’s ongoing projects and how they plan to showcase them
50:34 Do they expect any backlash to stories that don’t fit into established boxes neatly
54:52 Is there a time-limit to the relevance/interest for partition stories
58:11 Sparsh and the team’s future plans after Project Dastaan concludes
1:02:46 South Asian diaspora cultures not as separated abroad as at home
1:05:34 The unrealized legacies of colonialism
1:10:40 A hilariously ridiculous story from his visit to Pakistan
1:14:06 Cultural visibility of Islam in India vs non-Islamic religions in Pakistan
1:19:44 Outro
LINKS:
Project Dastaan: https://projectdastaan.org/
Sparsh & Sam's podcast with PG Radio:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCELz3OOwrA
Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)!
Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below!
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Rizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkhar
Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan
The boys are back. We're losing weight! Pizza Hut in Pakistan isn't doing well! Karachi's crime stories are crazy! Funerals have the weirdest people showing up! New Zealand left Pakistan! People want advice! All this and more in our TWENTY FIFTH Chalant Crew episode!
Things discussed in this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:33 What did Rizwan have for dinner & KFC/Pizza Hut discussion
10:32 Karachi crime tweets, rant about stealing credit, first story
Karachi Crime Tales:
15:41 Gulshan 13D & phone slappers
17:37 Bakery Uncle
18:53 NIC courtesy in Karachi muggers: Syed power and professionalism
20:16 Rizwan gets his friends mugged
23:03 Palwasha saved from a mugging by Dunkin Donuts
25:06 Shehenshah analysis
26:25 A very long rant about NZ, Pakistan, national leverage, the lies we tell ourselves
Funeral stories:
47:46 Rizwan & his mom go to a taaziat, and our regional obsession with sadness
55:12 Daawat demands by insane guests at funerals
CHALANT ADVICE SECTION
59:35 Question 1: Secret ingredient for less stressed life & advice to youth
1:03:21 Question 2: How to stop hating your feelings
1:04:58 Question 3: What is the “State of Art” in Pakistan
1:12:15 Question 4: Talking about money (how much do you need to live in Dubai)
1:14:46 Question 5: KFC and self control
1:15:32 Question 6: How to fart expertly in a bus
1:16:32 Question 7: KFC vs McDonalds
1:17:22 Question 8: Hair Loss chat
1:18:38 Question 9: Too many exams
1:19:23 Outro
LINKS:
1. Hawkesbay's tweet about crime stories: https://twitter.com/HawkesBay/status/1437415316804579330
2. Pizza Hut's response about mushrooms & olives: https://twitter.com/ghauraghaura/status/1439912424933572613
Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)!
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Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan
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