The author had visited Sanghar district during 1990s in connection with building Chotiari Reservoir in Makhi Lake area where she…
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Roshni Rustomji’s father Behram’s family was from Karachi and had lived there for at least three or four generations. Her…
Read More »Hindu Sindhis like my grandmother, a minority community in the region, journeyed across the border and rebuilt their lives in…
Read More »In October of 1947, a Sikh milkman was stabbed in a residential neighborhood just a few streets over from Bunder…
Read More »It was the British authorities’ decision to split the British Indian Empire into the sovereign states of Pakistan and India.…
Read More »Narayan missed his father, who had stayed behind in Karachi and had no way to send word to his family.…
Read More »Raghavan’s friend Mr. Ponniah was the editor of one of Karachi’s two major English-language newspapers, the Sind Observer. He provided…
Read More »The British ranks swelled in Karachi as troops traveled to Burma to block the Japanese invasion. Coins were scarce at…
Read More »During langar, tahri was often served with sai bhaji, a green, leafy vegetable and lentil stew, or bhee aloo, lotus…
Read More »The believers use to erect the pagoda-shaped stone towers, as Buddha’s remains are placed at a stone pagoda. It is…
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