Faces of the City; Shushma Sardana
- Transcript
i'm about a third of the spaces of the city we visit a candidate recently and found in vancouver british columbia a large relatively new minority of east indians most of these families left india several generations ago to settle in africa recently they were ousted and now live in canada says massa won in kenya came to vancouver by way of london two years ago they were directed at that and east indian as well armed intervention is managing i have a small open room upstairs my husband and i bought clay their own particular days and like we had a festival of lights and the trade off maybe when you think of having a child can currently ask god to give us a nice kid and things like that and and i think i get that sort of satisfaction and sort of pleasure
and peace and quiet when i go there sometimes my mother who has just come out from england that she has got their beautiful <unk> eu will you owe it now my religion is very precious to me it guides me and my thinking and my meeting people in my i'm getting people talking disobedience in god being a lawyer were indigenous you can worship god in a new position well i am indifferent to i just had to meditate on it and that that piece of mind before my father died he used to pray at least half an hour in the evening for the whole families to sit down and then used to
my mother used to be religious book i'm going to get that and concerts and have been for discussions the frigid did you got beaches that now everyone is equal and whatever you do is going to determine what you're going to be in your next day life that shows that i believe in reincarnation to be a human being is the biggest achievement off so that always goes from one body into another package includes is that's the basis of being diligent he'd me that the new piano or evil a stage he that there was a known least my completely empty totally amazed i hadn't even seen him before i got that you
see his father used to it and the indian high commission which was excluded the bbc in london and he used to see me and he yeah i just lost my father that time and she wanted you know wanted something happened and she said oh yes and he set up a son who's police in canada and i said oh that define who he came to know it is that my brother his parents how can you just say yes
we have oftentimes we find that we didn't like and i think that that made me say yes to the merits and we got married and the guys at oh i i just thought i had made the biggest mistake of my life not knowing him because steve my husband is a very quiet sort of a person and i just didn't know how to do and how to communicate with him oh boy i just couldn't get out of it i had given my with my mom and my mother had given the word to spit it i do i do steps of jobs one is technical and other one is broadcasting in other words i am in front of the microphone and behind the microphone as well
i have my orange studio here at home because it they love their job so much i would i went for a job when i came here for the first time i was told that i would never get a job job because number one i am a woman and number two i am black that just hit me because i'd never never never heard that before any way that canadians are also operatives in london i was coming from work one evening in the subway and in my compartment it was a young woman with a small child and her hand touched my hand and she immediately took her handily and look at it and to help with her talk and get me think we look and she went on monday she said that was not guilty then today not told about black people being you could do it
i don't know why that situation has flared up a lot in england i was also interested in announcing because i have my own show still so devastated city accepted that job that's a finance job but i also wanted to do my technical jazz hadn't worn for the sun studio upstairs you know i was itching to do something so i tv stations and the one that accepted me as a technical operators and service station here in vancouver but still it i find that the president who can operate it and they use issues of a hit would rather not taking a visitor command i can get to give these people in about maybe because i am and we do business and secondly i am what people like it and i am very open minded and maybe end that we
got to this point maybe that's one reason why i have a lot of influence yeah if they're interested in haiti's well we have major friendship and we have in the uprising within the meeting in movies is that at home it means yes it stings even here are i think i quite different from the meeting and they give business and mixing with comedians about i think i don't use as many problems as the language has always been the biggest problem they have an intruder to complex is once they get rid of the inferiority complex and say i am if not backed it as good as that person in front of me or these vanished these fights between canadian kid's an east indian kids
ok well i think he fights if canadian kid the seventies didn't get the skin and get a canadian kid in the dam right so but that the money what i do not mean that even comedians or east indians or deceptive the situation derby allies would put people you cannot clap with one hand what was done to her and i do feel insulated to some time think it's a lonely and depressed that i feel like crying and i don't think they were very much but i like it now and it's a it's not the happiest times in india it's b
- Series
- Faces of the City
- Episode
- Shushma Sardana
- Producing Organization
- KCTS (Television station : Seattle, Wash.)
- Contributing Organization
- SCCtv (Seattle, Washington)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-7926783183c
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- Description
- Episode Description
- A profile of Shushma Sardana on immigrating to Canada, her culture, and her job.
- Series Description
- Faces of the City: A series of individual shows with short profiles finding the extraordinary in the ordinary based on Studs Terkel’s approach. 1972 and 1973. Profiles include: a taxi driver, a divorcee, a garbage man, an Afro American airline stewardess, a nun, a grocery checker, a member of the Elks Club, a teen-age Korean emigree, and a female office janitor. Selected programs shown on PBS. Received local Emmy for Outstanding Program Achievement and PMN “Best of the West” Award, Television Information category, 1975.
- Broadcast Date
- 1972
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Biography
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:09:49.022
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Host: Byrd, Roberta
Producer: Walkinshaw, Jean
Producing Organization: KCTS (Television station : Seattle, Wash.)
Speaker: Sardana, Sushma
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Seattle Colleges Cable Television
Identifier: cpb-aacip-6f9eee744d7 (Filename)
Format: Hard Drive
Duration: 00:10:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Faces of the City; Shushma Sardana,” 1972, SCCtv, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed February 1, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-7926783183c.
- MLA: “Faces of the City; Shushma Sardana.” 1972. SCCtv, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. February 1, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-7926783183c>.
- APA: Faces of the City; Shushma Sardana. Boston, MA: SCCtv, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-7926783183c