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contents
- prologue
- Introduction
- List of Urdu Vocabulary
- Enter the Realm of NO Time and Space
- the Greatest Biryani existing in an endless loop of change, somewhere in present-day Karachi
- the Author, in the year 2024, somewhere high up
- i - the Greatest Migration and the Death of a Society
- ii - the Makings and the Marrings of the Society, then the Colonised and the Coloniser
- iii - the End of the Greatest Colonial Rule and the Struggle for a Brave New Society
- iv - the Ordered Disorder of the Biryanis of Karachi, and the Indian Subcontinent
- v as the Authors Note- the Wilful Skepticism of my Memories of the Biryani
- vi as a Reveal of the Authors Secret - the Performative Steps towards the Creation of the Greatest Biryani
- References // CV
- Saniya Jafri
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abstract
This Exposition is a brief ironic comment on the ongoing degradation, commodification, and colonisation of food and its many dimensions — recipes, ingredients, context — and a reflection on the territorial definitions that shape identity, in this case of South Asians and the Global South, once bound together as a people and still united in the brieftopian world of the Author’s Greatest Biryani: an amalgamative dish of political and cultural reproductions, drenched in time, where old and new contest identity. Through a conversational, autoethnographic lens, the exposition blends historical, colonial, and territorial reflections, using Biryani as both departure point and metaphor for shared identity and dislocation. Visual collages — archival, familial, and sourced — act as probes connecting memory, culture, and belonging. Ultimately, the work offers the Author’s Greatest Biryani as a living document of generational knowledge and a utopian gesture, inviting both insiders and outsiders to gather around a dish transcending borders and time.
- Saniya Jafri - ideally, the biryani that brings us all together - 2025
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