Kharkhana - Factory | 2022 | Video Art | 02:12

This project is a collaboration between my mother and I. She is speaking about an old memory of Tibba, her village in Kasur, Pakistan, where her family settled after the Partition in 1947. During the Partition, my mother's family were forced to migrate to Pakistan from India, losing their ancestral home and possessions. Post-Partition, many muslim refugee families ended up residing in homes that were previously occupied by Hindus who, leaving everything behind, had migrated to India. She tells a story of a prominent Hindu man who had lived in the village before the partition. He hoped to advance the village by growing a garden and building a factory, but was forced to migrate to India because of the growing religious conflicts.