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Podcast: Another Pakistan

Another Pakistan Podcast

Veteran journalist Christopher Lydon, of Radio Open Source, traveled to Pakistan in the summer of 2011, microphone in hand, ready to take the pulse of the embattled nation. The result is Another Pakistan, a candid and thought-provoking series of podcast conversations brought to you by the Asia Society and the Watson Institute at Brown University, produced by Zarminae Ansari and Ben Mandelkern, with support on the ground from Aman ki Asha.

In Lydon's words, his team approached Pakistan "aslant."

"Less with oft-quoted strategists, more with the imaginative class, so to speak: with the typically grim but mettlesome singers, story-tellers and artists of Sind and the Punjab," Lydon explained. "They are wonderfully available, individual, candid women and men who have their own dark, truth-telling traditions. They each tell different stories, of course — and almost all of them different from the standard line of an 'Af-Pak' crucible of global terrorism. Many of them point rather to 'Indo-Pak' roots of the modern turmoil, in the Partition that carved two wounded and unequal sibling rivals out of the British Raj in 1947.

"I am deeply interested in the anxiety that has escalated in 2011, in the assassination of Salman Taseer and the official murder of the Sy Hersh of Pakistan, Saleem Shahzad, which has rattled our best friends in journalism. In general, though, I’m drawn to Pakistanis who can think about the long story, as far back as birth by partition, and who can think of Pakistan’s trajectory ahead for a generation. It’s part of the lure for me that Pakistan has a booming literary culture that is more and more linked and noticed in the West; also that it has a talented modern pop music culture that is heard all over the Indian airwaves, and all over Asia."

Follow the links below to listen to individual episodes. Or download our free Another Pakistan podcasts from iTunes. iTunes also features a master feed of all Asia Society Podcasts. You can also enter our feeds (Another Pakistan, Asia Society Podcasts) into the podcast player of your choice.

 

  • Pakistani students wave national flags at the mausoleum of the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi on August 14, 2011, to mark the 64th Independence Day of Pakistan. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images)

    Another Pakistan: Two-Hour Version

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  • Ashis Nandy in New Delhi, summer 2011.

    Podcast: Ashis Nandy and Pakistan's 'Latent Potential'

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  • Artist Rashid Rana in his Lahore studio, summer 2011.

    Podcast: Rashid Rana

    A visit to the 'Hanging Fire' artist's Lahore studio.
  • Singer Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan.

    Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan

    Singer merges classical and pop, village and globe.
  • The late Saleem Shahzad pictured on the cover of a report edited by Imtiaz Alam.

    Reporting from Pakistan

    New rules needed, says Imtiaz Alam.
  • Kamil Khan Mumtaz at home in Lahore, summer 2011.

    Podcast: Kamil Khan Mumtaz

    Architect lauds Sufi tradition.
  • Salima Hashmi with her father, the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

    Podcast: Salima Hashmi: In the Worst of Times, the Alchemy of Art

    "In the worst of times in Pakistan, there is always a joke, dark humor and irony," says the indomitable artist, educator and activist.
  • Zebunnisa Humayun Bangash (L) and Haniya Aslam (R), also known as Zeb and Haniya.

    Urdu Blues

    Crossing borders with Zeb and Haniya.
  • Nadeem ul Haque giving a talk at TedxLahore in July 2010.

    Podcast: Nadeem ul Haque: 'The Country That Can Kill the World'

    Nadeem ul Haque: What America should be sending Pakistan is C-SPAN, NPR, and USIA libraries… and instead it sends Raymond Davis and Blackwater.
  • Chris Lydon (R) with Salman Rashid (L) in his walled garden on the south side of Lahore, summer 2011.

    Podcast: Salman Rashid: A Pakistani Travelogue, with Tears

    The distinguished travel writer Salman Rashid encounters painful memories in Punjab.

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