Partition

A large majority of Sindhi parents stopped speaking to their children in their own language, wanting them to have a…

‘Tarandar Badal’ is the story of a Sindhi youth who had taken part in the freedom struggle movement, who was…

The bulk of the Sindhis, poor peasants and petty traders had just walked across from Karachi, Thatta, Tharparkar, Umarkot and…

In his short story ‘Toba Tek Singh’, set against the background of the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, writer…

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

At the time of partition there were about 1.3 million Sindhi Hindus. Most migrated to India. This is a record…

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

Manik Wadhwani was born in Karachi in 1936. His grandfather, Hiranand, was the headmaster of the Municipal High School in…

I am so fortunate that, though I was born in Bharat, my family environment and the books I read introduced…

Lal Krishana Advani says he has extreme affection for Karachi. “After all I was born in Karachi, I had my…