PARTITION: Tape 26 TAPE 26 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time 255MODEM Jan 08 12:20 Side A NIAZ AHMED MADANI Karachi-based journalist; a muhajir from Uttar Pradesh; interviewed 4/1/97 about partition experiences and aftermath [not transcribed] Side B A muhajir wedding reception in Karachi, 4/1/97 Azhar Abbas's wedding - the nikah in Islamabad, and the groom's reception some days later at the Services Club in central Karachi - were on accasion for a divided muhajir family to get together. 10 to 15 family members travelled from India. It was the first time there had ever been such a big family reunion. The groom's reception ended with the extended family (maybe 50 or 60 people) posing in a family group for the camera and singing: "Hum ek hi hain". Recordings at groom's reception - Karachi, 4/1/97 M: Zaffar Abbas 7 - 'everyone likes to exchange notes ... what differences have emerged, how it would have been different had things not moved they way they have, and of course it;s a happy occasion and that's why everyone is here' 15 - 'bot sides stick to their point of view that they are happy in their own way in their own lifestyles ... but the debate is a never ending debate, and whenever on this kind of occasion the family meets, and people come from across the border come ... they do talk about these kind of things' 27 > low wildtrack of voices, laughing 32 > now also including table clearing sounds M/F: Pak brother and sister, man a retired army officer 54 - F: 'it's been more of a family reunion than a weddding, concn has been on the reunion ... the logistics have been very difficult ... there's always a'^pol angle to family gatherings between these two countries ... we are all compiling note' 66 - M: 'every night - heated political debates' 75 - [Indians regrest staying] F: 'economically perhaps not, but econ they regret it' M: 'the Muslims in India - when you talfcs of I fund, I just tell them what about Hindu fundamentalism ... the Ms over there lack opp, and the homogenous voice of ms in India is in Kashmir only' 91 - M: 'I think this has been a land of opportunity; I tell you what; ... 80% [of migration to Pak] has