A love-hate relationship ?

Anticipate : do this research on India and its culture :

- PART 1

A tumultuous history

Watch the trailers of these 3 films, and answer the questions in the worksheets :

1) Global understanding

2) group work and detailed understanding

 Victoria and Abdul (2017)

 Gandhi (1983)

 Viceroy’s house (2017)

 Lord Mountbatten’s speeches

4 June 1947 Radio broadcast on Partition

15 August 1947

- PART 2

Thriving Indians and cultural coexistence

 Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Aman Khan (/səˈdiːk ˈkɑːn/ ; born 8 October 1970) is a British politician who has served as the Mayor of London since 2016. He was previously a Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 until 2016. A member of the Labour Party, Khan is on the party’s soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat. (wikipedia)

 Priti Patel

Patel was appointed Home Secretary by Boris Johnson in July 2019

(born 29 March 1972) She is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for the Home Department since 2019 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witham since 2010. Patel served as Secretary of State for International Development from 2016 to 2017. A member of the Conservative Party, she is ideologically positioned on the party’s right wing and considers herself to be a Thatcherite. (wikipedia)

 Diwali

Watch the video about the Indian festival Diwali :

and now watch this video on the 2016 Diwali festival in London :

 Little Punjab

When Pritam Singh Sangha opened his first corner shop in London in 1954, little did he know that Southall would become a mini Punjab of London. On her recent trip, Kamiya Jani walked around Southall only to discover so much more about the Punjabi & Pakistani community living in London. From the best Indian street food to fashion, you find it all at Southall.

 Indian restaurants

Why your local ’Indian’ isn’t actually Indian - BBC Stories Approximately 87% of Indian restaurants in the UK are run and owned by Bangladeshis. For decades curry houses have been serving dishes such as chicken tikka masala, korma and vindaloo. Those recipes are a big part of British culture but many of these “Indian” restaurants are now struggling as British tastes are evolving and changing. Young British Asian chefs such as, Nitisha Patel and Cynthia Shanmugalingam are fast emerging, providing authentic regional cuisine, such as Gujarati, Punjabi and Sri Lankan food. (Filmed by Asian Network’s Nalini Sivathasan Additional research by Jai Chayne Series Producer : Anisa Subedar)

BBC 2’s adaptation of "The boy with the Topknot"

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