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October 26, 2026 — "Sammy talks to Habiba Nosheen about The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony" · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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  Speaker 1: South Asian music and culture can be.
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  Speaker 2: Found around the world.
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  Speaker 1: We track down the best.
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  Speaker 3: And present it here for you on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Hey guys, this is me Amal Malik and you're listening
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  Speaker 4: to The Bridge with Sammy Chan on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Hi everybody, this is Naya Mitha and you're listening to
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  Speaker 3: The Bridge with Sammy Chan. Hi there, Akshay Kumar, and
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  Speaker 3: you're listening to The Bridge, only on Ruckus Avenue Radio. Yo! Yo!
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the big program here. I hope you had
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  Speaker 3: a great weekend. I want to thank you all for
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  Speaker 3: finding the Ruckus Avenue Radio signal wherever you may be
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  Speaker 3: around the world. My name is Sami Chand, and you
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  Speaker 3: have found an October 26th edition of The Bridge. We
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  Speaker 3: had a fabulous week last week on the show. And
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  Speaker 3: the fabulousness continues this week. We kick it off with
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  Speaker 3: Habiba Nausheen. And listen, throw in three Emmy Awards, throw
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  Speaker 3: in a Peabody, throw in Columbia Journalism. And you have
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  Speaker 3: Habiba Nausheen, the director of the film called The Gymnast
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  Speaker 3: of Fisherman Colony. An incredible film that is out now.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a film that not only covers, of course,
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  Speaker 3: the gymnasts of Fisherman Colony, but really dives into the
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  Speaker 3: challenges that a lot of people in Pakistan face when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to getting an ID. A lot of hoops.
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  Speaker 3: And especially for people that are marginalized in whatever the
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  Speaker 3: circumstance may be. Looking forward to being joined by Habiba today.
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  Speaker 3: Be joined by the Ruckus Avenue Radio All-Stars as we
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  Speaker 3: do every day on the big program. Doita Dasgupta with
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  Speaker 3: an artist spotlight. Dr. Roy with the word on the avenue.
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  Speaker 3: Be joined by Meera Sharma with her weekly mindful sass minute.
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  Speaker 3: Looking forward to that. And you know me, I've got
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  Speaker 3: a suitcase full of music for you here on a Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Big program coming up. Big week coming up. We'll be
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  Speaker 3: joined tomorrow by Kalki Kekle. Really excited about that conversation. Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: we'll be joined by Malvika. Thursday, we'll be joined by
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  Speaker 3: Ersh Deep Man. Big program on the week, and we'll
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  Speaker 3: begin it with what was the number one song from
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend. Welcome to the bridge.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to the bridge.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the bridge. Why don't you talk to me?
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you talk to me? Why don't you talk
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  Speaker 6: to me?
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you talk to me?
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you talk to me?
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you talk to me?
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you talk to me?
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  Speaker 7: Why don't you talk to me?
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  Speaker 8: Why don't you talk to me? Why don't you talk
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  Speaker 8: to me? Why don't you talk to me? Hey you,
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  Speaker 8: you didn't respect me I fought the world for you
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  Speaker 8: I stood in front of you, you didn't see me
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  Speaker 8: Why are you asking me to come back?
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  Speaker 2: First you lost me, then you.
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  Speaker 9: Lost me, then you lost me Why are you asking
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  Speaker 9: me to come back? First you lost me, then you
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  Speaker 9: lost me, then you lost me Why are you asking
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  Speaker 9: me to come back? Why are you calling me back?
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  Speaker 9: I have lost you, lost you, lost you Why are
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  Speaker 9: you calling me back? I have lost you, lost you,
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  Speaker 9: lost you Why are you calling me back? I have
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  Speaker 9: lost you, lost you, lost you Why are you.
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  Speaker 4: Calling me back?
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  Speaker 6: Toh kendi mai chhutha ki ta ki nahi tere lai
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  Speaker 6: Saade pyaar da bhuta paani paaya vi sukha Toh kendi
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  Speaker 6: mai chhutha ki ta ki nahi tere lai Saade pyaar
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  Speaker 6: da bhuta paani paaya vi sukha.
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  Speaker 9: Sukh gaya kyun? Mainu das ja tu me.
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  Speaker 8: Tiyan nahi rakhaya kyun?
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  Speaker 9: Hun pashta mera mai teri banke rahna.
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  Speaker 10: Nahi hun What have you lost?
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  Speaker 8: What have you gained from me?
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  Speaker 9: Now that I've lost you, what do I gain from you?
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  Speaker 9: Now that I've lost you.
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  Speaker 10: What do I gain from you?
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  Speaker 9: Now that I've lost you, what do I.
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  Speaker 2: Gain from you?
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  Speaker 9: Now that I've lost you, what do I gain from you?
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  Speaker 3: It's the Vendor Week, everybody. This album is coming out
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  Speaker 3: in three days. So get ready for it. October 29th
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  Speaker 3: is the date. And it's the number one song on
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  Speaker 3: the Bridges Top 20 Countdown show from over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: The song is called Mangada Vapaskyong. And a big way
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  Speaker 3: to start off the week here. Moving right along as
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  Speaker 3: we get ready for Habiba Nausheen today. This song is
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  Speaker 3: called Tum Se Tum Tak. Tum Se Tum Tak.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 11: The love that you haven't got for so long, now
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  Speaker 11: what has happened has happened, how much will you yearn?
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  Speaker 9: Will you celebrate your mother's death?
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  Speaker 5: Will you remove the article?
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  Speaker 11: Will you burn yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for watching.
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  Speaker 9: Tum se hi paayi hai Vanda gale pe tha.
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  Speaker 8: Gurisi tumhari hai Kaisi hai.
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  Speaker 12: Lachari hai Sir pe tabaai hai Kapde humare hai Khushbu
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  Speaker 12: tumhari hai Kaisa hoon jo.
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  Speaker 11: Isht na mera hai Itne.
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  Speaker 10: Arso se Ab.
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  Speaker 9: Jo ho gaya ho kho gaya hai Kitna tersoge Maatam.
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  Speaker 11: Manaoge kya Atikan hataoge kya Kut ko jalaoge kya.
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  Speaker 10: Beautiful stuff right there.
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  Speaker 3: Currently exists in our top five from over the weekend
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  Speaker 3: on our top 20 countdown show. Nayam is the artist.
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  Speaker 3: The song is called Tum Se Tum Tak. Big stuff
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  Speaker 3: going on around here, folks. Big interview coming up with
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  Speaker 3: you today. Habiba Noshin will tell us about her brand
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  Speaker 3: new film called The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony. This song
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  Speaker 3: is called Kante.
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  Speaker 13: Kante.
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  Speaker 14: Kante kara ke degaya vich dab gaya toori de Aap.
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  Speaker 15: Da chal gaya nau kriwe mul painde toori de Kante
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  Speaker 15: kara ke degaya vich dab gaya toori de Aap da
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  Speaker 15: chal gaya nau kriwe mul painde toori de Shahid minu
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  Speaker 15: dasana ni chonda ho Shahid hath rakhna hi chonda ho
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  Speaker 15: Jaan jaan minu tad fonda ho Lashan sari preet.
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  Speaker 3: E guri de.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, oh, oh.
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  Speaker 14: Bunga kera ke de gaya vich.
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  Speaker 17: Dab gaya toodi de Aapta chal gaya nau krive mul painde.
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  Speaker 14: Toodi de Bunga kera ke de gaya vich Dab gaya
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  Speaker 14: toodi de Aapta chal gaya nau krive mul painde toodi
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  Speaker 14: de Thank you. Hey, my love, my life is because
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  Speaker 14: of you.
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  Speaker 16: My love, I don't want to lose you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to lose you. I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: lose you. The song is called Kante, the artist named Jasmanak.
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  Speaker 3: Habiba Nashin is coming by today, the director of the
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  Speaker 3: film called The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony. The movie is
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  Speaker 3: actually executive produced by Malala Yousafzai. and Mariska Hargaday, and
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  Speaker 3: two pretty prominent names out there in not only the
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  Speaker 3: social space, but also in Hollywood. So incredible film there.
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  Speaker 3: We're looking forward to talking to Habiba today. Now it's
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  Speaker 3: time for us to bring in Dr. Roy with today's
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  Speaker 3: Word on the Avenue. How are you, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Roy?
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  Speaker 18: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 3: This is Dr.
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  Speaker 19: Roy with today's Word on the Avenue.
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  Speaker 20: After nearly a decade away, Apu, the beloved Indian-American convenience
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  Speaker 20: store owner from The Simpsons, has reportedly returned to the
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  Speaker 20: long-running animated series, drawing attention from fans because it's being
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  Speaker 20: voiced by none other than Sunil Malhotra. Also joining in
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  Speaker 20: on the cast is Janina Gavankar, and being part of
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  Speaker 20: this amazing milestone brings renewed attention to South Asian and
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  Speaker 20: Indian representation in one of television's most iconic shows.
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  Speaker 18: In media news.
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  Speaker 20: British Punjabi model Neelam Gill has returned to the Victoria's
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  Speaker 20: Secret fashion show for the third consecutive year, further cementing
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  Speaker 20: her place on one of the world's most recognizable fashion runways.
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  Speaker 20: Born in the UK to a Punjabi family, Gill's continued
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  Speaker 20: presence on the global stage highlights growing South Asian representation
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  Speaker 20: in the international fashion industry. In event news, nine-year-old Shreyovi
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  Speaker 20: Mehta from Faridabad, India, earned international recognition in the Natural
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  Speaker 20: History Museum's 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, where
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  Speaker 20: her photograph in the spotlight was named runner-up in the
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  Speaker 20: under-10 category. Captured during an early morning visit to Keoladeo
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  Speaker 20: National Park, the image features two female Indian pia fowl
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  Speaker 20: silhouetted against golden light, and Miss standing out amongst more
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  Speaker 20: than 59,000 entries from 117 countries and territories. That's it
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  Speaker 20: for today's Word on the Avenue.
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  Speaker 17: Until next time.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Roy.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much for that report right there. Got
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  Speaker 3: a big week here. Kalki K-Klan joining us tomorrow on
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  Speaker 3: the show. On Wednesday, we'll be joined by Malvika. On Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: Ersteep Maan is stopping by. A big program here for
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  Speaker 3: the week. This one right here is Hirsh Nasi. The
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  Speaker 3: song is called Gal Manla, On the Bridge.
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  Speaker 15: Don't look at us, don't even look at us Don't trust.
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  Speaker 17: Us, don't even doubt us If you want to do it,
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  Speaker 17: listen to us Then ask us for our support Make Zulfa,
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  Speaker 17: my heart I forget all about it again and again.
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  Speaker 2: I came here.
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  Speaker 17: Thinking I was going to ask you something. I forgot
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  Speaker 17: when I met your eyes. I don't care about beauty,
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  Speaker 17: I don't care about sorrow. I want to fly away
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  Speaker 17: from this world. I have forgotten all that I have
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  Speaker 17: seen in this world. I want to drink a cup
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  Speaker 17: of tea I want to talk to you for 2-10
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  Speaker 17: days My story has started from the beginning It's time to.
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  Speaker 14: Tell you that I know.
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  Speaker 17: Zain vich mere galaan yor se tohne Aj meri vi
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  Speaker 17: toh gal sunke jai Jata bane lade aj bedi saadi
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  Speaker 17: noon Haan jave naa ek chunke jai Saate kono dili
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  Speaker 17: apne di das hoi naa Kit raijwe naa dili utpaan.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great song. It really is. I hope you
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  Speaker 3: guys are enjoying yourselves. The song is called Galmanla. And
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  Speaker 3: as we do every Monday morning on the show, we
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  Speaker 3: bring in Meera Sharma to the program to give us
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  Speaker 3: a mindful minute. How are you, Meera?
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  Speaker 21: Hey, Sammy.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Meera Sharma here with your weekly dose of mindful sass,
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  Speaker 1: helping you stay self-assured, spirited and strong. Here's your reminder
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  Speaker 1: this week. Don't just do things because.
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  Speaker 18: They're the norm.
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  Speaker 1: You weren't born to follow the crowd. You were born
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  Speaker 1: to live a life that feels good to you. When
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  Speaker 1: you stick only to what everyone else is doing, you
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  Speaker 1: miss out on the experiences that could change your life.
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  Speaker 1: So try something new. Take that class. Visit that random place.
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  Speaker 1: Say yes to an opportunity that scares you a little.
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  Speaker 1: Send that text. Growth doesn't happen in the comfort zone.
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  Speaker 1: It happens when you choose you over what's expected. So
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  Speaker 1: go make your own rules and do life your way.
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  Speaker 4: You've got this.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Love it. Great advice. Thank you so much, Mira. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: for the enlightening message here on a Monday morning, folks.
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  Speaker 3: This is the great A.R. Rahman. And it's from the
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  Speaker 3: brand new film called Ramayana. This song is called Ravana Tandav.
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  Speaker 3: The Hindi version. And it's one of the first songs
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  Speaker 3: to be released from the soundtrack. Here it is for you.
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  Speaker 2: The Hindi version. Thank you. Darsha Darsha.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to be huge. The movie is called Ramayana,
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  Speaker 3: and it's coming out this week. Actually, it's making a
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  Speaker 3: world premiere here in Los Angeles this week. That is A.R.
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  Speaker 3: Rahman's first single from the film called Ravana Tandav. My goodness,
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  Speaker 3: the energy is just incredible. We're looking forward to the
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  Speaker 3: film and the soundtrack. And now let's bring in Daniel
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  Speaker 3: Johnson from the U.N. News Department.
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  Speaker 7: This is U.N. News Today with me, Daniel Johnson. The headlines.
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  Speaker 7: In Yemen, deepening concerns for the people of Taiz City
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  Speaker 7: as aid is blocked from entering. Meanwhile, in Warton, Sudan,
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  Speaker 7: it's one year since paramilitary forces rampaged through al-Fasha. It's
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  Speaker 7: a legacy of trauma and fear, UN Women reports. And
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  Speaker 7: the latest Ebola development. from the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
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  Speaker 7: from the World Health Organization on the ground there, working
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  Speaker 7: to contain the outbreak. Aid agencies warned on Friday of
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  Speaker 7: the fast-developing humanitarian emergency inside Taiz City in Yemen. which
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  Speaker 7: has been encircled by de facto Houthi forces fighting government
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  Speaker 7: troops along the country's west coast. The escalation between Houthi
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  Speaker 7: separatists and the Aden-based government began in early September, ending
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  Speaker 7: the relative calm brought about by a 2022 truce. Here's
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  Speaker 7: Jens Laker, spokesperson for the UN Aid Coordination Office, OCHA.
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  Speaker 22: It's 20 days and counting since Taiz has been cut off.
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  Speaker 22: So from the 3rd of October we are seeing increasingly
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  Speaker 22: that the fighting makes it impossible for us to get
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  Speaker 22: in and impossible for people to get out.
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  Speaker 7: The World Food Programme, WFP, is one of several UN
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  Speaker 7: agencies responding to immense needs across Yemen. It reported on
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  Speaker 7: Friday that more than 800,000 people in Taiz have been
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  Speaker 7: cut off from assistance alone. This includes 600,000 people who
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  Speaker 7: depend on humanitarian assistance, and 200,000 women and children. We're
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  Speaker 7: desperately trying to regain access to Taiz, and we continue
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  Speaker 7: to support the broader operations across Yemen, said the agency's
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  Speaker 7: regional communications officer, Asfardine. One year since paramilitary forces rampaged
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  Speaker 7: through Sudan's al-Fasha, the legacy of fear and trauma continues
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  Speaker 7: to haunt thousands of survivors. That's the message from gender
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  Speaker 7: equality agency UN Women. which reported that nine in ten
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  Speaker 7: Sudanese aid organisations it surveyed had found women or girls
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  Speaker 7: in distress who had received no mental health, psychosocial or
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  Speaker 7: legal support since fleeing the Darfur city. UN Women Regional
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  Speaker 7: Director Anna Mutawati said that some people have started to return,
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  Speaker 7: but the fear of violence is constant.
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  Speaker 19: We've heard that one year on, the scars of the
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  Speaker 19: violence in Al-Fasha have not faded. Women and girls continue
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  Speaker 19: to live with the trauma of sexual violence, the disappearance
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  Speaker 19: of their daughters, their sisters, their mothers, their husbands and
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  Speaker 19: their sons, the killing of family members and the loss
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  Speaker 19: of their homes, property and livelihoods.
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  Speaker 7: The war in Sudan began in April 2023 between the
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  Speaker 7: Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary rapid support forces, former
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  Speaker 7: allies who had jointly seized power in a 2021 coup.
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  Speaker 7: Ms Mutavati said that drone attacks are increasing across Blue Nile, Khartoum,
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  Speaker 7: West Kordofan, Gedaref and Kasala. Most of those killed or
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  Speaker 7: injured are women and children. Many had already fled violence,
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  Speaker 7: including sexual violence, she told journalists. It is nearly six
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  Speaker 7: months since the Ebola disease outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus
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  Speaker 7: was declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC.
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  Speaker 7: In that time, it has killed 4,727 people, and infected
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  Speaker 7: over twice that number, with cases confirmed in France, Kenya,
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  Speaker 7: Nigeria and Uganda. Inside DRC, the UN World Health Organization, WHO,
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  Speaker 7: reported that infections are still being diagnosed across the vast
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  Speaker 7: and remote east and northeast of the country, as the
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  Speaker 7: virus moves into increasingly hard-to-reach locations, often affected by conflict.
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  Speaker 7: A potentially more positive development this week is the drop
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  Speaker 7: in the number of people dying in the community or
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  Speaker 7: away from Ebola treatment centres. said WHO's Dr Catherine Smallwood.
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  Speaker 13: So that signals that some of the actions that we've
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  Speaker 13: been taking to increase the level of early detection and
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  Speaker 13: the quick referral of patients to transit centres or Ebola
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  Speaker 13: treatment centres has been working, and we hope that that
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  Speaker 13: will continue. However, in parts of eastern VRC, including in
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  Speaker 13: parts of North Kivu, we hear that patients are visiting
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  Speaker 13: between two to five times different health facilities before they're
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  Speaker 13: referred to Ebola treatment centres.
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  Speaker 7: Dr Smallwood said that 30,000 people a day are being
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  Speaker 7: monitored as contacts of confirmed Ebola patients in a bid
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  Speaker 7: to stop transmission. This involves a quarantine period of 21 days,
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  Speaker 7: which represents a very significant additional burden for already vulnerable families,
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  Speaker 7: she noted. To help patients and their relatives, the World
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  Speaker 7: Food Programme provides hot meals for It has delivered more
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  Speaker 7: than 744,000 dinners across 60 Ebola treatment and isolation facilities
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  Speaker 7: and distributed at least 3,000 metric tonnes of food. This
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  Speaker 7: assistance helps individuals like Francine Birungi Emoti in Ituri province,
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  Speaker 7: who lost a child to Ebola. Today, she is raising
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  Speaker 7: her six surviving children and another baby entrusted to her care,
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  Speaker 7: but violence has cut her off from her fields. If
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  Speaker 7: you go out, you may not even return alive, and
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  Speaker 7: I do not have money to buy food at the
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  Speaker 7: local market. So we stay at home and WFP helps
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  Speaker 7: us enormously, she said. Daniel Johnson, UN News.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for that, Daniel. And Daniel appears
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  Speaker 3: every week here on Ruckus Avenue Radio as part of
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  Speaker 3: Ruckus Avenue Radio's partnership with the United Nations News Department.
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  Speaker 3: We're looking forward to be joined by Habiba Nausheen right
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  Speaker 3: after this song. She's the filmmaker behind the film called
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  Speaker 3: The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony. Really looking forward to this.
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  Speaker 3: Here is Raghavan Arjun.
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  Speaker 2: Here is Raghavan Arjun. What kind of magic is this?
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  Speaker 2: How did we get lost waking up? We have become
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  Speaker 2: yours It's the answer to all these questions What will
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  Speaker 2: anyone understand? What kind of magic is this? My words
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  Speaker 2: are lost, even my words remain silent.
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  Speaker 3: What can I say now?
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  Speaker 10: What kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Magic is this? Waking up, waking up, Jaana hum tumhare
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  Speaker 2: ho gayi Ho gayi.
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  Speaker 3: And ladies and gentlemen, all the way from Toronto slash
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey. The wonderful Habiba Noshin. How are you, Habiba?
• 28:17
  Speaker 18: I'm great. How are you?
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: We're very happy to have you on the line here
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: and absolutely blown away by all the great work that
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you've been doing throughout your life. And I'm so proud
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: to have you on the show here talking about this
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: incredible project, the Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony. I'm going to
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: dive right into this. There's so much to get into
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: with this incredible film. And I wanted to start with
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: your personal story. Of course, you moved from Lahore to Toronto,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: which is quite a journey in its own right. But
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: of course, there's a lot going on in Lahore and
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: a lot going on in Toronto and very different places,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: of course. When did you notice that you're in Toronto
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: in a very different place than you were in Lahore?
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  Speaker 3: Take me back to that moment, if you don't mind.
• 29:04
  Speaker 18: Oh, my goodness. Okay, this is really going back. So,
• 29:07
  Speaker 18: 90 years old, my parents tell me we're moving to Canada.
• 29:12
  Speaker 18: And I say to my mom, what's that like? And
• 29:15
  Speaker 18: she said, oh, you know that show you watch, Full House?
• 29:18
  Speaker 18: That's what Canada is like. And I go, oh, okay.
• 29:21
  Speaker 18: In my mind at that moment, as a little girl,
• 29:24
  Speaker 18: I think my mother is telling me that when you
• 29:27
  Speaker 18: land in Canada, you turn into a blonde.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 29:30
  Speaker 18: Because everybody on that show was blonde. So when we
• 29:33
  Speaker 18: land in Canada, that did not happen. And I threw
• 29:35
  Speaker 18: a full-on tantrum because I could not imagine that I
• 29:39
  Speaker 18: was going to have to be a brown girl living
• 29:42
  Speaker 18: in a white country as I thought at that moment.
• 29:45
  Speaker 18: So it was a big shock. And I feel like
• 29:47
  Speaker 18: I was forced to come against my will because if
• 29:49
  Speaker 18: they had disclosed to me fully that, no, I get
• 29:52
  Speaker 18: to stay being brown, I'm not sure the nine-year-old me
• 29:55
  Speaker 18: would have signed up for that.
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  Speaker 21: Wow.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: And then the nine-year-old you ends up Columbia Journalism, throw
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: a couple of Emmys in your pocket, and here you
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: are at this incredible film. And I will say that
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: your personal story of how this happened to me really
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: moved me. And if you don't mind me sharing this
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: with the audience, you personally adopted someone at a very
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: young age, a daughter, and the same person that helped
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: you with that adoption now calls you up one day.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: and tells you about this gym that she's pretty much
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: running over there, and what she's doing. Take us back
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: to that moment of that phone call. Of course, a
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: very trusted phone call, and she's batting 1,000 already with
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: you in life, so why not entertain the idea?
• 30:45
  Speaker 18: Well, she actually didn't pitch it to me. We followed
• 30:48
  Speaker 18: each other on social media. She was my adoption lawyer.
• 30:52
  Speaker 18: We follow each other on social media. And I started
• 30:55
  Speaker 18: noticing around five years ago, she's posting about these girls
• 31:00
  Speaker 18: in Pakistan doing gymnastics. And I could tell from the
• 31:04
  Speaker 18: photos that she's posting, they're not elite rich girls. There's
• 31:08
  Speaker 18: a grittiness to the photos. And so I called her
• 31:12
  Speaker 18: up and I said to her, what in the world
• 31:15
  Speaker 18: is happening here, Sarah? And she then, that's how she,
• 31:19
  Speaker 18: she's so modest. She would never, I think, pick up
• 31:21
  Speaker 18: the phone and call me. She had never mentioned this
• 31:24
  Speaker 18: other life that she lives, which is running this amazing,
• 31:27
  Speaker 18: amazing school that tries to provide education and access to sports,
• 31:32
  Speaker 18: especially for girls who are stainless. And I was just
• 31:37
  Speaker 18: blown away by the amazing work that's being done on
• 31:39
  Speaker 18: the ground in Pakistan. And when I went back to
• 31:42
  Speaker 18: Pakistan in 2023, went to meet these girls, met their families,
• 31:48
  Speaker 18: wanted to make sure everybody was on board. This was
• 31:51
  Speaker 18: not a project that I was wanting to take on
• 31:54
  Speaker 18: if everybody who we wanted to follow was kind of
• 31:57
  Speaker 18: hesitant or didn't want to do it. This is not
• 32:00
  Speaker 18: the kind of film that, you know, you wanted everybody...
• 32:04
  Speaker 18: who we wanted to have participate. You wanted there to
• 32:07
  Speaker 18: be full consent. So we met with the family, figured out, okay,
• 32:11
  Speaker 18: I think this person's the right person. And then the
• 32:17
  Speaker 18: rest is history. It was such an amazing collaboration with
• 32:20
  Speaker 18: these girls who were so grateful, trusted us to follow
• 32:26
  Speaker 18: their journey for the last few years. They're so vulnerable.
• 32:30
  Speaker 18: They've been struggling to get recognized by Pakistan for their citizenship,
• 32:36
  Speaker 18: even though they're born in Pakistan, which by law should
• 32:40
  Speaker 18: entitle them to citizenship. But because they're Bengalis, there is,
• 32:45
  Speaker 18: when they try to go to the office to get
• 32:47
  Speaker 18: their birth certificate or get their passport, there's just so
• 32:50
  Speaker 18: much discrimination and red tape that they don't, end up
• 32:53
  Speaker 18: being able to obtain it. And as a result, they're
• 32:56
  Speaker 18: essentially stateless, even though by law, they're supposed to be
• 33:00
  Speaker 18: able to get their citizenship by being born in Pakistan.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: An inflection, a really interesting moment in the film is
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: when this costs one of the three main characters, by
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: the way, Kiran, Sonia, Anwara, who are in this little fishing,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Bengali fishing settlement right by like Karachi's harbor. And here
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: they are in this situation here, as you mentioned it,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: they have Bengali background there, which is maybe a source
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: of discrimination that's going on there. But you found out
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: through this to be a pretty wide issue going on
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: in Pakistan, specifically there. And tell me about that. Tell
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: me about, of course, you mentioned that there's many reasons
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: for why that's going on. But tell me about the
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: experience from your perspective and the perspective that you can
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: give to us as to the problem.
• 33:50
  Speaker 18: Yeah, you would think, oh, what's the big deal? You know,
• 33:53
  Speaker 18: if you don't have an ID card, what do you lose? Well,
• 33:58
  Speaker 18: everything in Pakistan, the Pakistan started to be digitized around
• 34:02
  Speaker 18: ID cards around early 2000. That's where there was a
• 34:05
  Speaker 18: big push to make sure everybody and all the citizens
• 34:07
  Speaker 18: were sort of registered. But everything now is digital. attached
• 34:13
  Speaker 18: to that id card including when you land there you
• 34:17
  Speaker 18: want to get a sim card something as simple as
• 34:19
  Speaker 18: that you need an id card so imagine there's a
• 34:22
  Speaker 18: group of right you know hundreds of thousands of people
• 34:25
  Speaker 18: in this community most of them without access to a
• 34:28
  Speaker 18: citizenship card they you know you can't even access public
• 34:32
  Speaker 18: hospitals you can't ask for public schools you can't you
• 34:37
  Speaker 18: are essentially invisible in this society if you don't have
• 34:42
  Speaker 18: this basic right and so that was so interesting because
• 34:47
  Speaker 18: i grew up in pakistan uh as a kid i
• 34:50
  Speaker 18: go there a lot i think i'm pretty you know
• 34:52
  Speaker 18: i know a lot about pakistan i had never heard
• 34:55
  Speaker 18: of this issue existing for pakistanis who are born there
• 34:59
  Speaker 18: but they're struggling to get their citizenship.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's an incredible story i i As part of
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: your background, you've covered a lot of those difficult stories,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: whether it's a rape case, a massacre in Guatemala, the
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: disappearance in Hamilton that you've covered. There's so much in
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: your story. And here you come across this. You find
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: this story to tell along the way you galvanize folks
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: like Malala and you take it to Tribeca. This is
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: an interesting story because I feel that you're telling so
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: much about Pakistan in this film in so much of
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: a good light. and so much that still needs to improve.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: How has the reception been on this film? And as
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: we get to see you here tomorrow night at the
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Lemley Monica, but I'm really looking forward to that Lemley
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Glendale appearance on Wednesday. I'll be there and hoping to
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: have everybody join us. But, you know, as you make
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: it there, and as you see the reception around the country,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: tell us about how people are receiving this film.
• 36:00
  Speaker 18: Oh my God, it's been amazing. Amazing.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 36:06
  Speaker 18: You know, our Tribeca screening, we have three screenings sold out.
• 36:14
  Speaker 18: The actress, Mariska Hargitay, is an executive producer on this film.
• 36:19
  Speaker 18: She's there to do an intro for the film and
• 36:23
  Speaker 18: welcome the audience.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: And.
• 36:26
  Speaker 18: Since then, we've been taking this film on the road.
• 36:28
  Speaker 18: It's premiered at different festivals.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Around the world.
• 36:32
  Speaker 18: And I've been traveling, meeting girls. And you know what
• 36:35
  Speaker 18: moved me the most is after a screening, you know,
• 36:38
  Speaker 18: I usually, if I'm there, I try to do a
• 36:39
  Speaker 18: Q & A. All these young women coming up to
• 36:42
  Speaker 18: me and saying, thank you for telling my story. Because
• 36:46
  Speaker 18: what ultimately is at the heart of this is how
• 36:50
  Speaker 18: girls in our community resist and challenge things and make
• 36:55
  Speaker 18: space for themselves. I think nothing has been given to
• 37:00
  Speaker 18: women in our community. We've had to fight for it.
• 37:03
  Speaker 18: We've had to earn it. And when you see that
• 37:06
  Speaker 18: in this film that tells the story, it's really about
• 37:10
  Speaker 18: girlhood and the perspective of three teenagers who are trying
• 37:15
  Speaker 18: to find space for themselves to be able to do
• 37:18
  Speaker 18: gymnastics and to be able to figure out who they
• 37:21
  Speaker 18: are in.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: This world.
• 37:24
  Speaker 18: And they're not just sitting back and taking things. They're like,
• 37:27
  Speaker 18: you know, one girl, Karen, in the story tells us
• 37:30
  Speaker 18: in the film, when she first started, her mom locked
• 37:32
  Speaker 18: her up in the house and was like, you're not
• 37:34
  Speaker 18: doing gymnastics. And She was like, I will not give
• 37:39
  Speaker 18: it up on that. She fought. You know, she convinced
• 37:42
  Speaker 18: her dad to convince her mom and, like, all this thing, like,
• 37:46
  Speaker 18: you know, politicking that these girls do to get to
• 37:49
  Speaker 18: do what they want to do. And I think that
• 37:53
  Speaker 18: has really resonated with the South Asian community. My father-in-law
• 37:57
  Speaker 18: was at the Tribeca premiere as well. Wow. I've only
• 38:01
  Speaker 18: seen two films in the last couple of months. One
• 38:04
  Speaker 18: was Spider-Man, and one was yours. I think I like
• 38:06
  Speaker 18: yours more. So that's 75-year-old grandpa's endorsement.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: I'll take it. I'll take it. That's worth a lot. Exactly.
• 38:16
  Speaker 18: The other thing we wanted to do was make sure
• 38:19
  Speaker 18: We know that South Asian people don't really watch a
• 38:21
  Speaker 18: lot of documentaries. And we wanted to make sure this experience,
• 38:25
  Speaker 18: when they go to the movies to watch this documentary,
• 38:29
  Speaker 18: it is an experience that they enjoy. And we really
• 38:34
  Speaker 18: focused on the amazing music. We have a lot of
• 38:38
  Speaker 18: amazing collaborations in this film from Pakistani musicians who you
• 38:42
  Speaker 18: may or may not have heard from before. But we
• 38:45
  Speaker 18: really try to center the fun and the joy because
• 38:49
  Speaker 18: I was looking around, even the work I do, a
• 38:52
  Speaker 18: lot of it's really heavy. And what I felt a
• 38:55
  Speaker 18: couple of years ago when I embarked on this journey
• 38:57
  Speaker 18: to make this film, we need more people. stories out
• 39:02
  Speaker 18: of Pakistan and out of South Asia that humanize brown people.
• 39:07
  Speaker 18: You know, we are not just dead bodies. We are
• 39:09
  Speaker 18: living people who, who challenge things, who create opportunities for
• 39:14
  Speaker 18: themselves and, and who push boundaries. And somehow with all
• 39:19
  Speaker 18: the trauma that brown people everywhere in the world, right.
• 39:23
  Speaker 18: You know, experience. And I'm not trying to say those
• 39:26
  Speaker 18: stories don't matter and shouldn't be told, but they're told
• 39:29
  Speaker 18: at a, higher proportion than stories about joy and our
• 39:33
  Speaker 18: lives in a more nuanced way. And this film really
• 39:37
  Speaker 18: doesn't sugarcoat things. It doesn't hide the realities of what
• 39:41
  Speaker 18: it's like to be a girl in Pakistan. But it
• 39:43
  Speaker 18: also takes a minute to show you the joy in
• 39:49
  Speaker 18: their lives too. It shows you what makes them girls,
• 39:52
  Speaker 18: what bugs them, what, where, you know, and moments where
• 39:56
  Speaker 18: they find joy in their life.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: That's beautiful. That is really cool. I wanted to touch
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: on something that you just brought up there as a
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: music man myself.
• 40:06
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: If you don't mind, but we have some excellent music
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: in this film, especially by rapper Eva B, who is,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: My favorite part was that she's just a few streets
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: away from that particular colony. And she raps in a niqab,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: which is awesome. But she broke through. I remember hearing
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: her back on Coke Studios work. And she's been around
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: for a while here. She comes to the film with
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: what I consider a really cool, energetic song, because I
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: love her delivery. But the song is called Ye Baribate.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: And tell us about the song. Tell us about how
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: it marries with the film so well. And of course,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Eva B's collaboration with you.
• 40:46
  Speaker 18: Yeah, so I loved Eva B. We were sampling music from,
• 40:50
  Speaker 18: we wanted to really showcase the amazing female musicians in Pakistan.
• 40:54
  Speaker 18: And Eva B's music is one of the ones that's
• 40:57
  Speaker 18: hard to miss. So we had reached out to her
• 41:00
  Speaker 18: to try to just license some of the music that
• 41:02
  Speaker 18: she had made previously, her songs, to use in the film.
• 41:07
  Speaker 18: And that got us started in this really incredible organic
• 41:12
  Speaker 18: conversation where we talked about, well, would you consider, would
• 41:15
  Speaker 18: you want an original song in the film? And I
• 41:18
  Speaker 18: was like, Oh my God, of course.
• 41:20
  Speaker 13: What?
• 41:21
  Speaker 18: That's amazing. So ultimately we gave, um, Eva, the dialogue
• 41:29
  Speaker 18: of the girls. And she then uses the dialogue of
• 41:32
  Speaker 18: the girls in the film, the lines that they had said,
• 41:36
  Speaker 18: to create an original song. So the lyrics are based
• 41:39
  Speaker 18: on the actual words of the girls. So it's really
• 41:42
  Speaker 18: deeply integrated. And we heard it and it just brought
• 41:46
  Speaker 18: tears to my eyes because it's such an amazing song.
• 41:50
  Speaker 18: uh it's just such an amazing song it's also the
• 41:52
  Speaker 18: song in our trailer um and yeah it came about
• 41:57
  Speaker 18: because she heard about what we were working on and
• 42:00
  Speaker 18: said yeah let's do this let's do a collaboration on
• 42:02
  Speaker 18: this and make something really unique to this film.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Wow that is incredible habiba you've been so gracious with
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: your time i just have one last question for you
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: but of course As we get ready to see you
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: this week in LA here, and I'm looking forward to
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: seeing you at the Glendale, screening 730 question and answers
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: for you, so everybody can have at it with you
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: in the audience there and ask all the questions that
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: they like. My final question is something that I, it's
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: my favorite thing to ask pretty much all of the
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: guests that stop by the bridge here. And that is,
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: I would love for you to speak that young girl
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: that left Lahore Once upon a time. And she still
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: exists out there in Lahore. But if there was advice
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: that you would give her, what would you say to
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: her today?
• 42:54
  Speaker 18: Oh, man, you got me all teary-eyed. I did not
• 42:57
  Speaker 18: expect that. You know, I would tell her it's going
• 43:01
  Speaker 18: to be all right. You know, we moved to Canada and...
• 43:06
  Speaker 18: they were really tough years. We were refugees. You know,
• 43:10
  Speaker 18: my parents had very little means and we were struggling
• 43:13
  Speaker 18: at times to even, um, have enough money to eat. And,
• 43:19
  Speaker 18: It was scary. It was scary doing, you know, uprooting
• 43:23
  Speaker 18: your life, being brought to Canada, and trying to financially
• 43:27
  Speaker 18: figure things out. And there were times when I didn't
• 43:30
  Speaker 18: know what life would be like. And I would tell
• 43:34
  Speaker 18: that girl, everything's going to be okay. And just, you know,
• 43:39
  Speaker 18: be kinder to yourself. Because as immigrants, sometimes we have...
• 43:45
  Speaker 18: this attitude that we need to prove something to the world,
• 43:49
  Speaker 18: to belong, to matter. And sometimes we forget to tell
• 43:55
  Speaker 18: ourselves to be grateful for who we are and where
• 43:59
  Speaker 18: we come from. And yeah, thank you for that question.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Thanks for the answer. It's wonderfully spoken and very honestly
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: delivered and very inspiring and Habiba, first of all, again,
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: I want to congratulate you on all the incredible work
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: that you've been doing. Your podcast, Conviction, we'll go check
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: it out. And of course, this incredible film, The Gymnasts
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: of Fisherman Colony. Everybody go check it out if you're
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: here in Los Angeles. If you're in New York, you'll
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: have a chance to see it out there as well.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: But folks, definitely go support.
• 44:33
  Speaker 18: Yeah, plug in our website if that's okay.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Please share it with everybody, Habiba.
• 44:39
  Speaker 18: It's thegymnastoffishermancolony.com you can go there you can find listings
• 44:45
  Speaker 18: of where the film is playing all over the country
• 44:47
  Speaker 18: and you can also learn about the girls who you
• 44:49
  Speaker 18: meet in the film and if someone's so inclined how
• 44:52
  Speaker 18: you can support this amazing program that they're running in
• 44:55
  Speaker 18: Pakistan to really give opportunities to these girls who are
• 45:00
  Speaker 18: living on the margins with very little so we would
• 45:03
  Speaker 18: feel free to check it out and follow us on Instagram.
• 45:06
  Speaker 18: Jim is a fisherman colony, so we would love that.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: And a big shout out to Tahira Hassan's organization, ImCon
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Welfare Organization, by the way. I felt like I had
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: to do that here. Big shout out to Tahira and
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: her work.
• 45:19
  Speaker 18: Amazing woman. That woman, somebody should nominate her for an
• 45:21
  Speaker 18: LWP prize. That's where I'm at.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: I wanted to make sure that we gave her a
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: shout out here before this interview was over. I was
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: really moved by her and what she's done. And of course,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: your connection to her. Oh, so before we go here,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: there's only one way to end this interview and it's
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: to play Eva B's tracks. If you don't mind Habiba,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: please do us the honor. Thank you so much for
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: joining us today, sis, and congratulations and good luck with
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: the project.
• 45:45
  Speaker 18: Thank you, Sammy.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: All right. If you can introduce the song for me, Habiba.
• 45:49
  Speaker 18: The song is Yay Birdie Bata by Eva B. All right.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: Awesome folks.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Bye.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: Here's the truck.
• 45:59
  Speaker 18: Thank you so much.
• 46:23
  Speaker 24: My name was made on the street. Pen on the
• 46:25
  Speaker 24: sheet and bars full of heat. School didn't give me,
• 46:28
  Speaker 24: street gave me an award. I spent money on tension,
• 46:30
  Speaker 24: but the reward.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: Was in my hands.
• 46:31
  Speaker 24: This fate is sleeping, if you're a girl, don't sleep.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Mother gave me courage, said, son.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Don't cry.
• 46:36
  Speaker 24: They said, you're a girl, I said.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: So what?
• 46:38
  Speaker 24: I'm like an army of emotions, let me rock up.
• 46:40
  Speaker 24: I go on a struggle, who's test is it?
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Success or failure?
• 46:52
  Speaker 24: We're going to give a big shout out to Habiba
• 46:55
  Speaker 24: Nausheen for stopping by the show today.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Big shout out to Eva B for this track. Yeah, buddy.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: And I'm playing a song that has not been released
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: out there. And so I wanted to fade out a
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: little bit sooner than usual, but nevertheless gave you a
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: taste of it all. But a big shout out to
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Habiba for sharing so much about the film. And let
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: me tell you guys what you guys heard here. Habiba Noshin.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: She was a nine-year-old girl from Lahore who thought she'd
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: land in Canada a blonde and threw a tantrum when
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: she didn't. A refugee kid who grew up to win
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: three Emmys and a film that found her through the
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: same lawyer who helped her bring her daughter home. Kiran, Sonia,
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: and Anwara were born in Pakistan. On paper, they didn't exist.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: No ID, no public school, no public hospital. They do
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: cartwheels on the beach anyway. And that song you just heard?
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: Eva B. Built it from the girl's own words. So
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: when I asked Habiba what she'd tell that nine-year-old girl,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: everything's going to be okay. Be kinder to yourself. Tuesday
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: at the Lemley in Santa Monica. Wednesday at the Lemley
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: in Glendale. I'm looking forward to it. Make sure you
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: guys pull up. Now, let's bring in our own Doita
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Dasgupta to the show, who's got today's artist spotlight for
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, everyone.
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  Speaker 23: This is Doita Dasgupta, your Ruckus Avenue Radio music correspondent,
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  Speaker 23: back with another artist spotlight. Let's spotlight Aditya Rikari, the
• 48:37
  Speaker 23: Delhi-born indie singer-songwriter whose emotionally raw music has made him
• 48:41
  Speaker 23: one of the most fastest-rising voices in Indian pop today.
• 48:45
  Speaker 23: Known for heartfelt hits like Fasle, Samchona, Paro and the
• 48:48
  Speaker 23: viral sensation Sahiba, Aditya has built a massive fanbase through
• 48:53
  Speaker 23: deeply personal lyrics and minimalist melodies that connect strongly with
• 48:56
  Speaker 23: Gen Z listeners. 2026 is already shaping up to be
• 49:00
  Speaker 23: a huge year for him. Earlier this year, Aditya collaborated
• 49:03
  Speaker 23: with Kutle Khan and Ravator on the Coke Studio Para
• 49:07
  Speaker 23: track A Achnabi. a soulful fusion record that quickly gained
• 49:11
  Speaker 23: major traction online and across streaming platforms. He's also continued
• 49:15
  Speaker 23: his streak of releases with songs like Promise and Lajawab
• 49:19
  Speaker 23: while expanding further into Bollywood with tracks for upcoming films
• 49:22
  Speaker 23: including Dacoit and Patipatni or Voto. Fans and critics alike
• 49:26
  Speaker 23: have praised his ability to turn vulnerability into music that
• 49:30
  Speaker 23: feels deeply personal yet universally relatable with many calling him
• 49:34
  Speaker 23: one of the defining voices of India's indie wave. With
• 49:38
  Speaker 23: billions of streams, sold-out live shows, and a sound that
• 49:41
  Speaker 23: feels intimate yet cinematic all at once, Aditya Rekari continues
• 49:45
  Speaker 23: proving that indie music in India has never sounded more
• 49:48
  Speaker 23: honest or more powerful. Well, that's all from me. Stay
• 49:52
  Speaker 23: tuned for more only on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Doita. Aditya Rekari, one of our
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: favorites here on the bridge. This is his latest. The
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: song is called Jaane Jaan.
• 50:05
  Speaker 25: Kaisi ulfat hai jaana, dil bhi lagana, masiwat hai jaana
• 50:09
  Speaker 25: par Tu badi dil kash hai jaana, tu badi dil
• 50:14
  Speaker 25: kash hai jaana Le tere ishq mein diwaane ki ho gayi,
• 50:19
  Speaker 25: kya haalat hai jaana par Tu badi dil kash hai jaana,
• 50:23
  Speaker 25: le haazir phir teri khidmat mein jaana na tu.
• 50:27
  Speaker 16: Meri ishq ko aabad kar yun kuch yun bhar baah
• 50:33
  Speaker 16: me ki azaad kar Tu rakh le saanse meri girvi
• 50:40
  Speaker 16: magar Yeh karz de ke mujh se kabhi jaane ki
• 50:44
  Speaker 16: naa phir baat kar Leh jaane jaa tera hua jee
• 50:48
  Speaker 16: jaa hai waise kharj de Jee bhar ke phir se
• 50:55
  Speaker 16: mujhe dard de Kar zalima ik war dapa Barbaad par
• 51:00
  Speaker 16: iste shayt pe Tere hij ragam se na maray Toh.
• 51:04
  Speaker 17: Mar de na mujhe haske Bhed bhed chokhto pe teri
• 51:08
  Speaker 17: meri jana Kitne hi din.
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  Speaker 12: Yuhi kat gaye hai Bhuri bhuri aankh jis dekho mar
• 51:13
  Speaker 12: daale Mujhe bhi dekho nazar bhar ke Jaan ja rahi
• 51:17
  Speaker 12: ho par tu saamne jo mere dil dekhe tujhe ruk
• 51:20
  Speaker 12: ruk ke hai Ya mehndi mere naam ki hateliyon pe
• 51:24
  Speaker 12: teri ho khudaya aisa kuch karde hai Sabhaar beta teri
• 51:28
  Speaker 12: chand baliyon ke sakke Teri misal nusrat ki kahaliyon me
• 51:32
  Speaker 12: darjhe Main mamooli saa shair teri tarife karun Tu meri
• 51:35
  Speaker 12: shairi pe vajne wali taaliyon se badke Mujhe zarurat teri
• 51:38
  Speaker 12: jaise raat ko subha ki Jaise baat ko subha ki
• 51:41
  Speaker 12: gandhe saad ko khuda ki Tu khaab mera chaahoon apne
• 51:44
  Speaker 12: khaab ko main phalu tu zarurat meri jaise I pray
• 51:46
  Speaker 12: to the Almighty that you are a part of my
• 51:49
  Speaker 12: prostrations and my prayers.
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: You are a part of my sins and a part.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Of my alcohol.
• 51:53
  Speaker 12: And when you enter my body as a drink, there
• 51:55
  Speaker 12: is nothing left for me except for you.
• 51:57
  Speaker 18: O my beloved, I am yours.
• 51:59
  Speaker 17: Give me your blessings.
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  Speaker 9: Give me the pain of every pain.
• 52:04
  Speaker 17: Give me the pain of every pain.
• 52:07
  Speaker 14: Give me the pain of every pain.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: The song is called Jaane Jaan. Aditya Rekhari, everybody. I'm
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: super excited about tomorrow's conversation. Make sure you guys pull up.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: We'll be joined by Kalki Keklan. Very exciting conversation. We'll
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: cover her brand new film. It's called Her Song.
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: Her Song. This rap killer, rap killer, jet Godzilla, Sonia's
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: skin tone like the vanilla, Khande ya khande jaane chakde
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: ni phila, Charche mahali mera ludde ana jela, De de
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: de le la, lak nu na hila, Tera na pyaar
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  Speaker 5: hu I don't know what to say.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: Bitch, you're a killer Look, you're a rocker, you're a
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: rocker Who.
• 53:34
  Speaker 11: The fuck wanna see Al-Zaad on my face and all?
• 53:37
  Speaker 11: The whole wave is on fire, baby, I'm on a
• 53:40
  Speaker 11: roll Tell you what, I'll give you a call Tell
• 53:42
  Speaker 11: you what you want, I'll give you a message Then
• 53:44
  Speaker 11: I'll blow a gun with smoke Make a hot box
• 53:48
  Speaker 11: Thank you for watching.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: Let's go. Thank you for watching.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: I don't want anything else.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: I want to make.
• 54:52
  Speaker 11: The world go wild. I want to make the world
• 54:54
  Speaker 11: go wild. I want to make the world go wild.
• 54:57
  Speaker 7: I don't want anything else.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: The village belongs to Mithra Whatever.
• 55:16
  Speaker 11: I've earned, I've eaten Whatever I've seen, I've gained Mithra.
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: Didn't even ask the world, brother-in-law.
• 55:21
  Speaker 11: My heart is full of pain, show us the struggle
• 55:24
  Speaker 11: Under the walls.
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: Show us the violence of Mithra.
• 55:26
  Speaker 11: Don't write with your bare hands, the sense will be
• 55:28
  Speaker 11: formed Wherever you step, the situation will become tense Big kill,
• 55:32
  Speaker 11: no fill Your friend is a gorilla Put it in
• 55:34
  Speaker 11: your mouth.
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: Take it in Namir's mouth Count it, with it, the
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: whole valley will settle Rap is in Mithra's mood, become
• 55:40
  Speaker 5: a pill.
• 55:49
  Speaker 10: I don't know.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: Got an Audula, Azad for life. The song is called
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: Rap Killer from the brand new Audula season one EP
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: that just dropped. Hope you guys had a great time
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: hanging out with me. I had a fabulous time hanging
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: out with you guys. Big shout out to Habiba Nausheen.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: We'll be joined by Kalki K-Klan tomorrow. Have a great day, everybody.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: Aida sirnu chaddi chidda, daru chaddi yaan Saara jag bulaada
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: je tu laal galde naal Mainu zulfa yaale jaal bacha
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: ke laeja mainu naal Soni hai ni, gun ki dasa
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: tera ho gaya Soni hai ni, deraani main chakda hinda
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: naa Soni hai ni, sab kahinde aana jahi usra Darda
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: naa main bhi jama.
• 57:08
  Speaker 10: There are many secrets in these dark nights. No one
• 57:16
  Speaker 10: can escape.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: From those eyes of the killer.
• 57:21
  Speaker 10: There are many secrets in these dark nights. No one
• 57:32
  Speaker 10: can escape from those eyes of the killer.
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: Dil hada hi nahi, kadhi maada hi nahi Dar lagda.
• 57:48
  Speaker 10: Ki nahi, jee lagda ji nahi Jaino.
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: Na minu nahi, hun lag lag nahi O minu jaan
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: jaan ho lagda meri jaan jaan jaani Mere naal naal
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: tu baija, teri paal paal jaani Hoge saal saal hun
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: mera karle kyaal kyaal jaani Mere nain nain ne dasde
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: mera haal haal.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: Jaani What are you supposed to be?
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: Another bad girl trying to get close to me.
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: I can sleep through your costume and read your mind.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: But I can't resist having a good time. Do you
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: feel me?
• 58:19
  Speaker 14: Don't tempt me.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be.
• 58:21
  Speaker 18: Sony Annie.
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: Sony Annie.
• 58:32
  Speaker 16: Thank you for watching!
• 58:43
  Speaker 10: The ones who got lost in getting you They.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: Are madly in love.
• 58:53
  Speaker 10: With me These are.
• 58:57
  Speaker 21: The secrets of the dark nights Those killers of the
• 59:08
  Speaker 21: night save anyone.
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: I tried to leave before You always blocked the door
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: You know all the reasons I.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: Can't fight you and my demons.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: Let me go Let me go