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Conversation with farmworkers at the paddy field

Description: This is a short video recording of a conversation at Aquil Ahmad's paddy field back in 2016, where the researcher, along with the farm laborers, is transplanting rice saplings. Aquil Ahmad records the activity, and in the meanwhile, one of the workers notices him and tells him to look at what his grandson is doing. Aquil replied to let him do and learn! Then he asks her whether those yellow turned saplings would also take roots.
Date: July 16, 2016
Duration: 55 seconds
Creator: Ahmad, Aquil

Conversation about a sports event

Description: This is a conversation about a sports event between Imtiaz Ahmad (a 31-year-old male) and Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year-old male). In this conversation, Imtiaz talks about participating in a cricket match.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Conversation about a surgery

Description: This is a conversation between Taj Nisa (a 49-year-old female) and Nargis Bibi (a 40-year-old female). In this conversation, Taj Nisa talks to Nargis Bibi about a surgery she had in the past, and narrates how the doctors and medical staff treated her.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 3 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Conversation about a visit

Description: This is a conversation between Atta-ur Rehman (a 37-year old male teacher) and Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher) about a visit to Punja Gali, a tourist spot located in district Mansehra of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan.
Date: January 4, 2019
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Conversation about a visit to Kashmir

Description: This is a conversation between Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male driver) and Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male government servant) about Naik Muhammad's recent visit to Kashmir.
Date: January 10, 2019
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Conversation about a visit to Rawalpindi

Description: This is a conversation between Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male) and Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male). Abdul Rehman talks about his visit to Rawalpindi to participate in an engagement ceremony and Abdul Malik talks about a doctor's appointment, his check up, etc.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 14 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Conversation about annual grass cutting

Description: Khatun Bibi and Sartaj Bibi discuss the daily routines of household chores during the grass cutting season. They also talk about the hardships they face during this particular season. Khatun Bibi is a 51-year old housewife. Sartaj Bibi is a 23 year old housewife.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Conversation about domestic matters

Description: This is a conversation between Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male) and Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male). Abdul Malik talks about an incident of olden days of his life and then both speakers talk about a domestic matter of their relative couple.
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Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Conversation about eye surgery

Description: This is a conversation between Taj Nisa (a 49-year old female) and Nargis Bibi (a 40-year old female) about their eye surgery when they both get operated.
Date: February 7, 2019
Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Conversation about the life routine of Taj Nisa

Description: This is a discussion between Taj Nisa (a 49-year old female) and Saleh Noor (a 50-year old female). Taj Nisa talks about the likes and dislikes in her life.
Date: February 7, 2019
Duration: 3 minutes
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Description of clearing snow from roofs

Description: In this recording, Muhammad Suleman, a 35-year old male teacher, talks about the methods which people in Danna use to clear snow from the rooftops of their homes. Wooden tools are used to brush snow from the roofs of houses when snow builds up on the rooftops. The speaker was born in 1983.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Monologue about a woman and two kidnappers

Description: This is a monologue by Khurshaid Bibi (a 50-year old female) about a woman who lives with her two daughters. One day two men come to the said woman's home at night and try to kidnap her. She kills the kidnappers and gets a prize the next day.
Date: January 29, 2019
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Monologue on hardships of ancestors and the ease of current life

Description: Recording of a monologue about the hardship of a woman's ancestors before they had electricity and other advanced facilities. She notes that her people are lazy and lack unity now that they have commodities, but her ancestors were strong. The speaker is Nargis Bibi (a 40-year old housewife).
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Performance of a poem about a happy life

Description: This is a poem by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male). In this poem he says that the whole world is like our home, we should live a happy life by co-operating with each other.
Date: March 10, 2019
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Performance of a prayer to god

Description: This poem is a prayer to god by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male).
Date: March 12, 2019
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Performance of poems about FLI and an itinerant merchant

Description: These are two small poems by Muhammad Aslam (a 37-year old male). The first one is about FLI (Forum for Language Initiatives); the second one is about a traditional man who brings some stuff to sell.
Date: February 9, 2019
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Personal narrative of Muhammad Awaiz

Description: Recording of a personal narrative by Muhammad Awaiz (a 31-year old male) in which the speaker talks about the economic hardships he endured as a student up until high school. He then moved to a far off big city in search of a job. There, he acquired a government job which helped him improve his financial situation. In this light, he reiterates his resolve to provide his children better education and better opportunities.
Date: March 10, 2019
Duration: 4 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Retelling of the story about two brothers

Description: Recording of a story about two brothers in which the elder brother used to oppress the younger brother. The younger brother, by chance, found a magical handmill which made him rich by producing everything that he would demand. The elder brother tried to steal this magical handmill and by his own stupidity and greed he killed himself and also drowned the mill in the river. The contributor Nargis Bibi is a 38-year old housewife.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 2 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Retelling of the story of a witty man

Description: This is a traditional story which involves a descriptive riddle about a witty man who needs to take a lion, a goat and a load of leaves across a river. The caveat is that the man cannot take all three in one go. (Note: the narrator inadvertently refers to the goat as a jackal in the beginning). In this recording, the speaker Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male speaker who works as a driver) is addressing Muhammad Awaiz (a 31-year old male government servant).
Date: January 20, 2019
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Retelling of the story of a woman's wisdom, 2

Description: This is a traditional story about a savage prince who used to marry women and kill them afterwards without any apparent reason. Eventually, he got married to a wise woman who gave him a lesson and turned him into a gentleman. Nargis Bibi is a housewife who is 38 years old at the time of recording.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 5 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Retelling of the story of greed is curse

Description: This is a retelling of the story of three friends by Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male) with Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male) as the listener. In this story, the three friends once found some money and decided to divide it among themselves. However, each one of them was trying to cheat the others. Finally, no one gets the money and all three end up dead.
Date: January 20, 2019
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma

Retelling of the story of seven brothers and a sister

Description: This is a retelling of the story about seven brothers and their sister by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old government servant) with Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male) as the listener. In this story, the brothers get separated from their sister and the latter is searching for them. The sister finds her lost brothers in a forest but the brothers cannot recognise her and each one of them wants to marry her. When the sister lets them know that she was their sister, they drop the idea of marrying her.
Date: January 10, 2019
Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
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