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[5/9/22, 10:43:37 PM] Ayesha Singh: yeah a brain exercise[5/9/22, 10:44:19 PM] SP: infinite puzzle of sorts[5/10/22, 12:45:40 AM] SP: its a wierd process- v need a translation of the translation [5/9/22, 10:45:16 PM] Ayesha Singh: definitely! the first text itself has got me very curious about many of our shared histories, had a few conversations with the gen that lived through it, i have put a part of my convo with nani there bec it gives context in such a wonderful way [5/16/22, 7:53:11 AM] Dipti Sherchan: For some reason, my mind anachronistically is situated more in the 90’s Nepali televi-sion history. I went back to read Benja-min’s essay and I am actually further confused as to what really is the task of a translator - is it to sit with the nucleus (the untranslatability) or attempt at getting to “meaning making” or “intentions”. [5/16/22, 8:15:07 AM] SP: It is also about latching on to something (humour in the clip shared by us) to talk about (a shared past) but also to evade it entirely. Another thing that I found interesting in Ayesha’s notes was when she mentioned Corbusier (architect) being bought in to realise the modern dream. [7/3/22, 8:19:10 PM] SP: I also found the fact interesting that you pick the skit of the performance as your translation. So this story of podna and podni is actually a very popular bedtime story in urdu and the version we hear in the clip is using the characters as masks to comment on the socio-political scenario of the time. [5/10/22, 12:49:17 AM] Ayesha Singh: specially since nation-redefinition is taking place here at the moment, quite violently[5/10/22, 12:51:50 AM] SP: thats an interesting mesh of material to work with in terms of connections with nation building that is still sucking so much energy of the state - ever so innocently in the beginning- and ever so violently now.