Oct 05 2015 65 mins
Do you feel at home? What is the other of home – the world? We think of home variously as culture, a memory, an identity, a language, a terrain of materiality, a landscape, the zone of affect, an idea, a gharana, & a family? How the sense of belonging (to, say, a gharana) has nothing to do with place? Have all homes been founded on the basis of some principles? How is the notion of home different for the refugees and the diaspora? Can you carry your home with you? Why do we need a home, & can one make multiple homes? How ideas, often, have multiple homes. What happens, however, when a certain musical tradition (a home for some) is appropriated by the market economy? What is the home of Hakuna matata? What is the significance of land, & where our ancestors might be ‘buried’? We also explore, using the Israel/Palestine case & other instances of settler colonialism, whether it is possible to have a home without a homeland. Is home where we can debate, converse and have access to new ideas? What is the future of gharanas? Does the future of home lie in creating an equilibrium between difference and similarity? Finally, are we all merely nomads? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions, about the past, present & the possible futures of homes, using concepts from literature (Githa Hariharan, New Delhi), social sciences & philosophy (Prof. Shail Mayaram, CSDS, New Delhi), and music (Vidya Rao, New Delhi). Listen in....