Project Dastaan is a peace-building initiative that reconnects displaced refugees of the 1947 Partition of India that created the modern-day South Asian republics of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh with their childhood communities and villages[1] through bespoke 360-degree digital experiences.

[4] The Project has 3 features "Child of Empire", an interactive VR piece to be installed in museums,[5] a feature film titled "The Lost Migration" and another film titled "Where the Birds Live".

[6] Founded in 2018 by a group of four students at the University of Oxford, the venture is advised by high-profile historians, film-makers and advocates including Malala Yousafzai, Gabo Arora,[7] Suroosh Alvi, William Dalrymple and Aanchal Malhotra.

[8] Dastaan's Founding Director, Sparsh Ahuja, was a recipient of the San-Francisco based CatchLight Fellowship in 2018[9] in order to seed fund the project.

[12] In 2022, co-founder Saadia Gardezi was awarded a National Lottery Project Grant by Arts Council England to fund a multi-venue tour across the UK in commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of partition.