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I wish I could say that I’m a genius and I planned all of this, but really, I was turning 30 and I just wanted to learn more about my place in the world. So I started to read more books about my roots.
Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, all being part of the same conversations. That’s one reason I think Brown History is so special. 70 years after Partition, I think the global South Asian community reached a stage where we’re trying to figure out where we came from.AZ: When my parents settled in Canada, they were busy with survival. They didn’t care about much else. But growing up, I was trying to establish myself. Now we’re established, we’re making money, we get how the world works. So we’re wondering, what’s next? There has to be more to life. We’re asking questions. We’re above water, finally, demanding more.
But that also goes with our parents’ and grandparents’ histories. We only see bits and pieces. Then we watch a Bollywood movie that is conservative and one-dimensional, and it’s easy to place that movie into our parents’ history to make sense of it. “Learning history properly allows you to humanise your elders. There has always been dancing and dating, and people having crushes and dreams, and being rebellious, too” – Ahsun ZafarAZ: In one story, there is this beautiful woman who is married to this guy who was abusive, and she was stuck in their house. So in a moment of rebellion she sneaks out, goes to a photography studio wearing her best-looking dress and takes a photo of herself. Her son sent it to me.
r … and I never share stories about the person who submitted it themselves. One of the rules since the beginning is that Brown History has been an anti-social media Instagram page.
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