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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
If the past is a foreign country, do you need a visa? And whose to say that place remains? Advances in virtual reality have helped realise half this hypothetical; harnessing technical sightlines to simulate geographies and stimulate memory. The other half is left to decide whose story to tell. Enter Project Dastaan and its VR docu-drama, Child of Empire. “Like the traditionally undivided Indian family which separates when brothers and cousins quarrel and build walls along the family courtyard, Indians and Pakistanis make awkward, complementary enemies” Supported by Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Laure…