Re: Pakistani Culture in India
Great topic Mahool. Thoda hatke hai. I see some potential with liberalisation of trade between the countries and hopefully more exchange.
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Shan masala to bahut saalon se chale aa raha hai. Also Rooh Afza and Karachi sweets are popular. So with this interest in Pakistani cooking..there will be more awareness of Pakistani dishes. Maybe Pakistan can have some reality cooking shows using Shan masala. Person with best original recipe wins..and only masala you can use is Shan Masala.
Shan masala should have tours of their factory with free food sampling . If not within Pakistan then in India through having food melas so more people get exposure to Pakistani cooking. I see more people becoming aware of different foods in different regions of Pakistan through these shows eg. difference between Sindhi vs Balochi food
Fashion- ke liye there should be fashion shows in India of top Pakistani brands.
With Pakistani dramas showing new styles there will be more demand for such styles.
Songs to hamesha se hit hui hain and lot of Pakistani bands visit India. So this will increase except now Pakistani drama songs like Zindagi Gulzar Hai and Humsafar will be popular.
Also with Zeezindagitv there will be joint dramas with Indians/Pakistanis in future set in Pakistan and some set in India. Maybe there will also be some good joint stories including historical stories from the past from areas of Sindh where people have existed peacefully for a long time.
After watching Pakistani dramas people’s urdu vocab will improve and they will have interest in learning language. Hopefully Indian culture will become less westernised and there will be more modest/stylish dressing like there used to be. People will be proud of their desiness especially films. My parents like Pakistani dramas and see so many things similar between our rehan sehan and the humtv dramas. Hopefully Indians will get insight into lives of Pakistanis and see that there is not that much difference. Also hopefully quality will rub off on Indian dramas and there will be good subtle dramas and no more saas-bahu types with never ending episodes.
Maybe Zeezindagi will have some joint reality shows..not like big boss but something like exchange lives for a month. So maybe an engineer from India and Pakistan will swap places/work places for a month or maybe doctors from both places or teachers or any 2 professions. They will keep their own cultural values but learn how life is different in those 2 cities and live with the family of the other for the month. Then at the end of the month they meet and discuss the experience. I’d also like there to be reality shows where children from both countries can become pen pals and get to know each other. Few years back there was a friends without borders program and Indian kids would write to Pakistani children and learn about their lives. I was too old for it and it was happening through schools but it was very interesting. The kids wrote the longest letter about 240 feet wide and 360 feet long and sent it to Pakistan. it was actually started by 2 Americans who visited both countries. So there should be a reality show about children writing to their penpals..and then at the end meeting them.
I think it would be good for Pakistan to attract tourists from India and also elsewhere. Tourism and trade. Pakistani items popular in India include Khussa and Peshwari Chappal, Classical/Sufi music, Sindhi Ajrak, Pakistani comedy shows and stage shows, truck art, Coke studio, Sialkot’s sporting equipment)
Knowledge/tourism about the following
- Cultural/Natural (Maybe not to Indians because im guessing there will be issues with travel but definitely these places should be advertised so people around the world can see them. There should be some national geographic type of shows on them on the Zee Zindagi channel)
- Lahore-food street
- Northern Areas
-Swat Valley
- Murree
- Kalash people
-Travel shows on the channel about different regions in Pakistan
- Historical
There should be more knowledge about all the Mughal architecture in Pakistan. Tourists should know about Indus Valley civilisation, Taxila , Buddhist monuments, Mohenjodaro and Harappa etc One of Sanskrit’s greatest grammarians called Panini was from Khyber area and it would be cool to have a historical show on his life.
Lahore fort and Shalimar gardens, historical monuments at Makli, Thatta, Rohtas fort. Port of Banbhore. Tomb of Shah-Rukhn-e-Alam, Tomb of Bibi Jawindi.
Shah Hussain tomb in lahore, Baltiti fort. From the time of Ashoka-the Mansehra rock edicts and the Shahbazgarhi rock edicts, Rehman Deri-Pre Harappan heritage site, Mehrgarh- a site from pre-Harappan times
Chaukandi tomb, Shah Jahan mosque, Ranikot Fort, Hiran Minar, tomb of Jahangir
- Religious
So already many Sikhs travel to Pakistan every year but there are lot of other religious sites that can be targeted to pilgrims.
Lot of dargahs in Sindh and elsewhere people will go to from rest of subcontinent
Badshahi mosque, Faisal mosque, Masjid e Aqsa, Masjid e Tooba are some of the largest mosques in world so Pakistan tourism should promote knowledge about it to subcontinent and in middle east. There is also Wazir Khan mosque
Buddhist monuments in could target towards Buddhists in subcontinent, China, Thailand, Japan etc . Taxila is about 20 miles north of Islamabad. In Sanskrit it is known as Tashasila. The Chinese call it Chu Cha Shi Lo. It is here that Buddha gave some of his teachings. Alexander the Great visited here and it also formed part of Darius’s Persian empire. The greeks knew of it as the greatest of all cities. There was an ancient university there where people learnt all topics from Maths, medicine, astrology and archery. Modern Islamabad was also designed by a Greek architect who used Gandhara architecture style in making some of the new buildings especially Islamabad university.There are lot of interesting ruins there including the Dharmarajika Stupa, one of the shrines made by Emperor Ashoka, to house the relics of Buddha. There is also the Julian Monastery which contains the Statue of Healing Buddha stll revered by Buddhists today. Buddhist sites of Takht-i-Bahi and Sahr-i-Bahlol. Archeological site of Ranigat (has monasteries, shrines, stupas etc)
Hindu sites of interest which have massive tourist potential or at least if documentaries are made on these places and exported it will do well as well- there is the Katas raj temple-where apparently the Pandavas took refuge during their exile and where Shiv’s tears from Sati’s self immolation filled into 2 pools, Indus river, lot of interesting archeological remains of Mohenjodaro and Harappa, Hinglaj Mata Mandir- one of the places where Sati’s remains fell according to the mythological story. The other places called Shakti peeths are spread out across the subcontinent and total about 51. To followers of the Shakti sect they are one of many pilgrimmage sites. Sharda devi temple just across the loc used to be the site of a Buddhist university in the past. Would be interesting to have that site maintained.
So i think Mahool if you or Muqa bhai should become PM of Pakistan you can make the above stuff happen. 
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