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India and Pakistan are the same people and the same culture. as far as I understand, and from my own far away position (combined with "nearsightedness"), it seems to me like the India-Pakistan division was made up when the english pulled out of there. I sense something similar to Korean culture being broken up into north and south. of course in all cases there's a local power helping... but the real drive for the spl…
I invite you to listen to Coke Studio btw, the older songs are amazing!
No offence to the author, but to give a song that was part of Coke Studio Pakistan the credit of uniting India and Pakistan is quite silly. Coke Studio is almost exclusively listened to only by the urban-ites in India, and Coke Studio Pakistan has even smaller listening audience in India [1]. A quick check of Youtube to see the current trending songs shows a lot of national and regional music, but no mention of this…
Well it does have 100M+ views, so somebody is watching it.
Although I assume people are listening to it through other means too?
No offence to the author, but to give a song that was part of Coke Studio Pakistan the credit of uniting India and Pakistan is quite silly. Coke Studio is almost exclusively listened to only by the urban-ites in India, and Coke Studio Pakistan has even smaller listening audience in India [1]. A quick check of Youtube to see the current trending songs shows a lot of national and regional music, but no mention of this…
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Well it does have 100M+ views, so somebody is watching it.
True, but in the context of the populations of India and Pakistan (about 1.38 billion and 220 million respectively), 100m views is not that many. Although I assume people are listening to it through other means too?
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Hm. All this uniting, love etc. is nested under Coca-Cola.
That's the spirit ... /s ... pun un/intended ... I'd rather embrace something I hope for, despite a possible bitter taste, rather than roll my eyes which seems to be your preference ...
Title is click bait. Coke Studio has done this several times. Mainstream Pakistani songs are quite different from Indian songs, however, both populations can understand what is being sung. Mixing the two together results in incredible music. Pakistan and India still hate each other. No music is about to unite them after 1000s years of history and polar opposite religions.
This is a false understanding of the differences between the two countries (actually 3, Bangladesh is also part of this shared culture). It's not 1000s of years of history being opposed to each other but 1000 years of shared history and culture. The differences have only arisen in the last 100 years or so. Pakistanis share common languages with only a part of India, the main languages being Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi. In…
This is not true. People in the Indian state of West Bengal also speak Bengali and have a Bengali identity. The split of Bengal into West Bengal and Bangladesh was based on religion.
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This is a false understanding of the differences between the two countries (actually 3, Bangladesh is also part of this shared culture). It's not 1000s of years of history being opposed to each other but 1000 years of shared history and culture. The differences have only arisen in the last 100 years or so. Pakistanis share common languages with only a part of India, the main languages being Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi. In…
> They separated from West Pakistan on the basis of their Bengali Identity This is not true. People in the Indian state of West Bengal also speak Bengali and have a Bengali identity. The split of Bengal into West Bengal and Bangladesh was based on religion.
India and Pakistan are the same people and the same culture. as far as I understand, and from my own far away position (combined with "nearsightedness"), it seems to me like the India-Pakistan division was made up when the english pulled out of there. I sense something similar to Korean culture being broken up into north and south. of course in all cases there's a local power helping... but the real drive for the spl…
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Hm. All this uniting, love etc. is nested under Coca-Cola.
> Coca-Cola Conde Nast. Vanguard. Black Rock. And journalists that write click-bait titles and little substance that provides content reflecting the title. The real question is why are we seeing this here on HN?