Afghanistan - My Kabul 1 of 3 - BBC Culture Documentary, recorded 20.02.2011
In this BBC documentary, journalist and native Afghani Tahir Qadiry revisits his hometown of Kabul. Qadiry meets with not only the historians and politicians, but also the workers, children, and homemakers who represent the over-four-million people who live in Kabul today. Ultimately, the document comes to the point that Kabul consists of many varying regions, classes of people, and amount of progress versus traditionalism.
It is evident from the documentary that Kabul is beginning to reach out to the modern age but various factors keep parts of the city from progressing. Narrow streets, hundred year old architecture, and poor sanitation systems seem to encourage old customs and little advancement. The people, though incredibly accepting and welcoming to Qadiry and his crew, still hold many of the fundamental values from Taliban occupation. With all its residents, it has become impossible to manage pollution and the documentary estimates that over 3000 people die every year from poor sanitation. Many families have to go all the way to the central part of the city just to carry water to their homes (Qadiry at one point tries to help a man to carry his water jugs but he can barely make it a few feet up a hill). Although an influx of foreign aid has begun to help reconstruct the new city, many parts have yet to see the money trickle down.
However, the most central areas of Kabul such as Shahr-e-now are not only progressive and urban but thriving, erudite and expensive. This district is much more progressive in its architecture, styles of clothing, successful corporations, building of public schools and private universities, and rapidly growing use of technology. After much music, cinema, and television had been banned under strict Taliban regime, the residents of Kabul are enjoying making progressive change and converting to a more westernized lifestyle.
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