The Hum Hindustani Poetry Podcast is a limited series podcast, a set of 10 episodes in English and Hindi, that emerged from the Hum Hindustani research project by filmmaker, writer and teacher, Samina Mishra, for TESF India. The project involved doing art and writing workshops with select groups of children on the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. A curated selection of these poems are featured on this podcast. Each episode includes the children’s writing, responses to the poems by writers, artists and educators, along with a commentary that presents the context and does a close reading of the poem to reflect on what the children’s voices reveal to us about the world we live in and the world we could build.
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The Hum Hindustani Poetry Podcast is a limited series podcast, a set of 10 episodes in English and Hindi, that emerged from the Hum Hindustani research project by filmmaker, writer and teacher, Samina Mishra, for TESF India. The project involved doing art and writing workshops with select groups of children on the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. A curated selection of these poems are featured on this podcast. Each episode includes the children’s writing, responses to the poems by writers, artists and educators, along with a commentary that presents the context and does a close reading of the poem to reflect on what the children’s voices reveal to us about the world we live in and the world we could build.
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The poem narrated in this episode was written as part of an exercise in which children were asked to reflect on their everyday life and when they had felt a sense of belonging. The poet is 14-years old and studies in a municipal school in Govandi, Mumbai. She lives in a densely packed compound of high rise buildings where people who lived in slums and pavements from all over Mumbai were rehoused. Living in such a space means coping with the lack of facilities such as poor sanitation, no safe play areas and uncertain power and water supply. What do children experience in such circumstances? How does that affect their relationships with those around them? And from where do they draw their sense of belonging?
About the Guest Natasha Badhwar is a writer, film-maker, teacher. She has a graduate degree in Psychology from Delhi University and a post-graduate degree in Mass Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia University, and is a Professor in the Media Studies Department at Ashoka University. Natasha started her career as one of India’s first women camerapersons in news television with New Delhi Television (NDTV). She quit 13 years later as Vice President, Training and Development. A popular columnist, Natasha's columns are published in BBC Hindi, The Tribune, Mint Lounge and The Morning Context. She is the author of the memoirs, My Daughters’ Mum and Immortal For a Moment, published by Simon & Schuster India. With Harsh Mander and John Dayal, she has co-authored Reconciliation, Karwan e Mohabbat’s Journey of Solidarity Through a Wounded India, published by Westland Books. With Harsh Mander and Anirban Bhattacharya, Natasha has co-authored When The Mask Came Off – Lockdown 2020: A People’s History of Cruelty and Compassion. She has received the Laadli Media & Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2016 and 2022, in the reporting and web documentary categories.
The Hum Hindustani Poetry Podcast is a limited series podcast, a set of 10 episodes in English and Hindi, that emerged from the Hum Hindustani research project by filmmaker, writer and teacher, Samina Mishra, for TESF India. The project involved doing art and writing workshops with select groups of children on the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. A curated selection of these poems are featured on this podcast. Each episode includes the children’s writing, responses to the poems by writers, artists and educators, along with a commentary that presents the context and does a close reading of the poem to reflect on what the children’s voices reveal to us about the world we live in and the world we could build.
Follow us on Instagram @themagickeycentre or visit our website hum-hindustani.in
