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Qurbani

September 24, 2015

DSCN0096_webAfter another day of digitizing DV tapes, I spent the next three days editing footage. There is a lot of work to do before I can create another draft of storyboards to prepare to shoot the puppetry portions of “Risalo”.I took a break from work on Eid, to visit relatives. Kristeen and I stepped out into the narrow alley in front of our friend’s place we were staying at. There were animals waiting to be sacrificed line up and down the lane. There was a large cow, and lots of waste to the right, so we walked the opposite way to get to the next lane and walk out to the main road where my relatives had come to pick us up.The qurbani or sacrifice had already begun in the next lane. We walked past a frightened cow and through the blood of another as we made our way to the street. It is all pretty terrible, but not all that different than every day meat consumption. I mean, the only real difference is that this is in your street and you see it.We made it to the car, then spent the day in Mughalpura with relatives, good food, plenty of it vegetarian for Kristeen. In the evening we went to Guddi Khala’s for dinner. Qurbani is an annual thing here, and a lot of the meat is distributed to those in need as well as relatives. It is a huge spectacle here because it is done out in the open like this.

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