In 2017, Ahsun Zafar set up Brown History – an educational archive of South Asian storytelling that now boasts over 600k followers on Instagram. Here, he talks about his humanising approach to history
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This Instagram Page Is Documenting South Asian History By Featuring The ‘Vanquished’
Brown History is a project, initiated by Montreal-based electrical engineer, Ahsun Zafar. The Instagram page addresses a wide range of issues such as colonialism, partition and racism. Instagram: @brownhistory Intifada P Basheer 2021-04-12T08:00:04+05:30 This Instagram Page Is Documenting South Asian History By Featuring The ‘Vanquished’ outlookindia.com 2021-04-12T08:18:38+05:30
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“I know almost nothing about her - so I measure the strength and fragility of my grandmother’s life by the markers of our history that she outlived. Colonialism, independence, nationalism, civil war, peace and the illusion of progress…Her memory was long and in the end completely erased.”