"As you enter the living room at the Stories That Made Us exhibition, a stereo plays the Hindi anthem Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge. It's a ballad celebrating friendship and love from the epic film Sholay. Beside the stereo, sits a bottle of Johnnie Walker and a red glass decanter. On the table are copies of the Punjabi newspaper Des Pardes, which translates as home abroad. The scene, which depicts the childhood home of Coventry-born curator and artist Hardish Virk,"
"Somewhere our stories could be told through different generations and different decades. The Stories That Made Us exhibition takes visitors back to a recreation of Hardish Virk's childhood home in Coventry. Photograph: Ayesha Jones A sign written by Virk for visitors entering the gallery reads: My family story is part of a tapestry of stories that exist throughout Coventry and beyond stories of migration, home, family, friendship, community and culture."
An immersive exhibition recreates the Coventry childhood living room of Hardish Virk, featuring a stereo playing the Hindi anthem Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge, a Johnnie Walker bottle, a red glass decanter and copies of the Punjabi newspaper Des Pardes. The show traces four decades of South Asian arrivals and adaptations to social, political and cultural change in modern Britain. The exhibition uses photographs, music and oral histories from family archives and begins in a border-control airport space showing 1960s arrival footage. The presentation links family memory to historic ties between Britain and South Asia, including the East India Company and two centuries of colonial rule. Pamphlets and books owned by Virk's late father reflect anti-racism activism.
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