Memoirs

Sindhi Children and the 1947 Partition of India

I have been talking with my parents and their siblings about a crucial turning point in their lives, the move…

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A Citizen of the World Reflects

I grew up in an extravaganza of colors — embroidered Kashmiri carpets, textiles from Swat and Sindh and Rajasthan, striking…

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Memories of Life in Sindh and the Migration to India

An Urdu speaker exhorted the Hindus to leave Sindh – “Yeh Mulk Hamara Hai, Hindu Chale Jao (This is our…

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Vintage Gramophone and utensils bind a Sindhi with Sindh, his ancestors’ homeland

Prakash also possesses another family treasure, some utensils his grandparents used in Bhiria. While leaving the ancestral abode, they didn’t…

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The Childhood Nostalgia of Goat Brain Masala

My grandparents, who hailed from the state of Sindh, in present-day Pakistan, were refugees living on railway platforms and in…

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Life of a Sri Lankan student in Karachi

From very first day at Sevakunj Hostel, he came under the influence of Tablighi Jamaat, as one of his roommate,…

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The Sindhi from Karachi

I belong to the Chhāprū Sindhi community. It is reported that most of the original settlers in Karachi were Chhāprū…

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Our lost ‘Kodak’ moments…

The ‘family album’ had been the most cherished possession of every family. It was a storehouse of photographs of all…

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All things are difficult before they become easy

Born to Engineer Hashmatsing Ajwani and Smt. Jasota in 1930, Dr. Mohini studied at Naaz High School Khairpur, located about…

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A Memoir of the 1950s – Part-V

On 7th October 1958, BBC reported that President Iskander Mirza had declared martial law in the country and that General…

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