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Capture Site | Floating Point | Home
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Intermundos | Nike Blanket Petititon |
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| Home and Away - Growing up as British Asians in London
by Samina Mishra |
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Samina
Mishra |
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And so, for the first generation,
it may have been easy to identify themselves as the Indian Diaspora with
a comfortable division between a home left behind and a new home, between
a nostalgic past and a pragmatic present. But for these children, this
is the only home they have ever known - a unique combination of London's
physical space and the Subcontinent's "culture". They grow up
in predominantly Asian neighborhoods, speak English with an accent that
is far from Asian, eat roti sabzi at home and learn hardly any Asian history
at school. So, if London is Home, then it is still, in some senses, distant
and away. And if the Subcontinent is Away, it is still home to many things
that make up their identity. |
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Biography Samina Mishra Samina Mishra is a documentary filmmaker and media practitioner based in New Delhi. She has recently finished The House on Gulmohar Avenue, a documentary film about home and belonging, tracing the filmmaker's personal journey to understand what it can mean to be a Muslim in India today. Home and Away, a multimedia exhibition on British Asian children in London, participated in ISEA 2004. Her work includes Stories of Girlhood, a series of three films on the Girl Child in India, produced for Unicef, India and Adha Asman, a video about differential access to healthcare, produced for the British Council as part of the Gender Planning Training Project. She has also written Hina in the Old City, a non-fiction book with photographs on the Walled City of Delhi for children. She was the location sound recordist for the documentary film Words on Water. She has translated six children's stories from Urdu into English for The Magic Key, published by Young Zubaan, New Delhi. |
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