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Folk Music of Pakistan: This 60-minute 'Sounds-and-Stills' show of Pakistani folk music is based on Nazir Jairazbhoy’s three-week fieldtrip to Pakistan in 1975, sponsored by The Smithsonian Institution in collaboration with Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk Heritage, Pakistan), and the resulting weeklong visit of Pakistani musicians to perform at the Festival of American Folklife in Washington D.C. in 1976.
Quiet Flows The River Chitra: In 1947, following the partition of India, Pakistan was formed. In East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), millions of Hindu families were forced to choose between living under Islamic rule, or abandoning the land, which their ancestors had been living in for centuries. Shashikanta Sengupta, a lawyer, refuses to migrate, although he sends his son to study in Calcutta. Together with his daughter, Minoti and his sister, Anuprava Devi, they continue to live in their hometown of Narail, by their beloved River Chitra.
Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant: In which John Green teaches you about the post-World War II breakup of most of the European empires. As you'll remember from previous installments of Crash Course, Europeans spent several centuries sailing around the world creating empires, despite the fact that most of the places they conquered were perfectly happy to carry on alone. After World War II, most of these empires collapsed. This is the story of those collapses.
Yasmin: Yasmin is a young Pakistani woman who lives in England and lives a double life. On one side she is a model woman who wears hijab out of respect for her family's traditions. On the other side, she is a woman dressed in the occidental style, who puts on a t-shirt and jeans to go to work. After 9/11, she finds herself torn between her two identites, as she becomes ostracised in her workplace and as her husband is imprisoned.
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