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Zubaani: South-Asian Parenting Tips and StorytellingZubaani: Rewriting NarrativesWelcome 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 3, Season 2: Rewriting NarrativesIn this podcast episode, we discuss retellings that are being written for South Asian settings. We also talk about what makes these retellings authentic. The episode also talks about the colonial impact in defining hierarchies in art and writing. This has led to an odd othering of South Asian stories in the West, and we talk about desi wri...
2025-06-1133 min
Indo American News Radio Houston TXIAN Unplugged 2502 011125 On Classically Yours, Jyoti pays Hommage to Bapsi Sidhwa, Shyam Benegal & Mohd. RafiIAN UNPLUGGED 2502 011125
On Sat, January 11, 2025 from, 3 - 4 pm on “IAN UNPLUGGED” on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmericanews.com), on Classicallly Yours, Jyoti pays musical homage to creative icons Houstonian Bapsi Sidhwa, Shyam Benegal and Mohammed Rafi. The prgram starts a little late due to a traffic delay on the 59 freeway.
2025-01-3116 min
Canada Reads American StyleInterview - Hollay Ghadery and Widow FantasiesTara talks with Hollay Ghadery, an award-winning Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishanaabe land. Fuse, her acclaimed memoir of mixed-race identity and mental illness, was published by Guernica Editions' Microland imprint in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for nonfiction/memoir. (Check out Rebecca's interview with Hollay on the January 11, 2023 episode.) Her debut collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, was released with Radiant Press in April 2023. Her short fiction collection, Widow Fantasies, will be released on September 1, 2024, with Gordon Hill Press.
Hollay is also the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township as well as the founder of and senior p...
2024-09-0642 min
Forgotten BooksIce Candy Man by Bapsi SidhwaA unique look at Partition of the Indian subcontinent through the eyes of a Parsi child in Lahore.
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2023-06-2315 min
Desi BooksDesi Books Ep 84 w/ Sorayya KhanIn today’s episode, we have Sorayya Khan in #FiveDesiFaves. She has a new memoir: We Take Our Cities With Us. Here, she discusses the five desi books to which she owes a substantial debt. Covering multiple genres and generations, these books are by Sara Suleri, Bapsi Sidhwa, Agha Shahid Ali, Urvashi Butalia, and Intizar Husain. Thank you for listening.
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2022-11-1821 min
The Missouri ReviewMiller Aud-cast #34: Tazeen Zahida Interview Bapsi SidhwaHello and welcome to Aud-cast #34, the podcast featuring finalists for the 2021 Miller Audio Prize from the Missouri Review. Good thing you’re here: for our latest Audio Documentary finalist we have Tazeen Zahida and her interview of the novelist Bapsi Sidhwa, recorded first for the interview series “Pass-e-Aaina,” which translates to “The Person Behind the Persona.”
Born in Karachi and raised in Saudi Arabia, poetry and literature played a major role in Zahida’s upbringing. She grew up immersed in the writings of Ghalib, Iqbal, Faiz, Shakespeare, and Shaw. She eventually found her voice in playwriting. An unapologetic bilingual, she writes plays...
2021-11-2432 min
Quarta di copertinaQuarta di Copertina del 13 gennaio 2021Oggi a Quarta di Copertina parliamo dello smantellamento delle scorie nucleari e delle conseguenze che questa scelta comporterà per il territorio italiano; per ricordarci l'importanza di preservarlo parliamo del testo ‘La pianta del mondo’. In Pakistan una giudice ha dichiarato “il test di verginità” un'azione illegittima e contraria ai diritti umani, si tratta di un passo importante per un Paese che ha grandi problemi legati al sessismo e al trattamento delle donne all'interno degli ambienti quotidiani come viene raccontato in 'La sposa Pakistana'. Infine in Turchia le manifestazioni dei giovani contro la nuova elezione nel mondo accademico ci fanno pens...
2021-01-1316 min
2020-09-2712 min2020-09-2722 min
Get Full Audiobook Titles for Your LibraryIce candy man -- Bapsi SidhwaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449833 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Ice candy man
Author: Bapsi Sidhwa
Narrator: Mala Mangla
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Release date: August 4, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary: Now Filmed as 1947, a motion picture by Deepa Mehta Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit and tragic power.
2020-08-0411h 01
dhaani"Forgetting to laugh ...is like forgetting to sleep or breathe" - Moni Mohsin , Episode 44Having a podcast with Moni Mohsin, face to face , was the much needed dose of laughter, humor, intellect, wisdom and experience. Honored and humbled to have her on 'dhaani' - A platform that wants to promote well-being, on the emotional, psychological, physiological, spiritual level - and laughter , humor and wit is an intrinsic feature of the human life. We spoke about privacy, laying safe boundaries, the need for solitude, social media and intrusiveness, and last but not the least Moni was generous to share her "Social Butterfly" snippets with us.Moni Mohsin was born in 1963 in Lahore, Pa...
2020-01-2151 min
reframe with mona and farrukhre005: Sharing extraordinary stories via Compelling Filmmaking with Sadia UqailiSadia is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and activist. She is the Founder of Explore Their Stories, with a non-profit mission to discover, document and share the extraordinary in our everyday lives. Sadia is the Director of a current production "Bapsi: The Silences of My Life", a biopic in the making on the life and work of the iconic writer Bapsi Sidhwa. You can connect with Sadia and her Foundation on Instagram at @exploretheirstories and at their website https://www.exploretheirstories.org/ I got a chance to sit down with her during her short...
2019-11-1500 min
Book Nomad: Reading the WorldEp. 32. Reading Far Away LandsIn this first of the new theme-based episodes, Assia and I explore reading books from countries we know little about! Discovering connections across the world. "A book is not holier than a tweet." © 2019 Assia Reading what we know is more comfortable. Follow Assia on Instagram and Twitter: @shereadsox. Books mentioned Amina's picks Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov To read: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Assia's picks Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa When We Were Arabs by Massoud Hayoun Train to Pakistan by Khu...
2019-07-071h 49
Baalgatha: Bedtime Stories and Fables for ChildrenThe Mouse With Seven TailsThis story teaches us that we should not listen to others\' taunts and teasing, and we should stand up for ourselves. A little mouse with seven tails gets seven wishes from her grandmother. Upon getting teased by her classmates in school for having so many tails, she makes one wish everyday and ends up losing one tail. Finally, she is left with no tails at all! You can learn more about this story at www.gaatha.co/seven-tailsThis story is from the Storyweaver collection from Pratham Books. Author: Bapsi Sidhwa . Illustrator: Sanjay Sarkar
2017-02-1413 min
Saturday ReviewThe Vote, The Crow Eaters, Girlhood, Brighton Festival, Grace and FrankieThe Vote is a comedy set in a polling station on election night, performed live at the Donmar Warehouse and simultaneously broadcast on More4. Starring Mark Gatiss, Judi Dench, Catherine Tate and nearly 40 more actors, can it have a life after we announce our verdict?
Bapsi Sidhwa's novel The Crow Eaters is a classic of Pakistani writing; a darkly humorous tale of a family in Lahore in the early 1900s. fans include Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Fatima Bhutto. What will our panel make of it?
The French film Girlhood tells the story of the lives of a group...
2015-05-0941 min
Barnard Center for Research on WomenAlison DonnellThis talk offers a new reading of postcolonial women's writings. The conventional
model since the 1980s has been to emphasize issues of silence and invisibility,
the desire for voice and narrative space, and self-representation as a form of
empowerment and transformation. What is often eclipsed as a result is a valuable
political ethic based on coalition and solidarity with oppressed and marginalized
figures. By working across an expansive literary archive, stretching from Mary Prince's
slave narrative to more recent works by Miriama Ba, Bapsi Sidhwa, Edwidge Danticat
and Shani Mootoo, Professor Donnell identifies an alternative framework for reading
postcolonial women's...
2010-02-1700 min