Kanu had vivid memories of his childhood in Sindh. One of the most striking is of the love and cordiality…
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Much of the literature about India’s Partition has been written around the violence and tragedy. The focus is the Punjab.…
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Only recently did I learn that my maternal grandmother was from Ratedero in Larkana, and my maternal grandfather was related…
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Prior to partition, the subcontinent existed as British India, ruled by the Queen of England. This was a magical land…
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A large majority of Sindhi parents stopped speaking to their children in their own language, wanting them to have a…
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‘Tarandar Badal’ is the story of a Sindhi youth who had taken part in the freedom struggle movement, who was…
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The bulk of the Sindhis, poor peasants and petty traders had just walked across from Karachi, Thatta, Tharparkar, Umarkot and…
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In his short story ‘Toba Tek Singh’, set against the background of the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, writer…
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An Urdu speaker exhorted the Hindus to leave Sindh – “Yeh Mulk Hamara Hai, Hindu Chale Jao (This is our…
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At the time of partition there were about 1.3 million Sindhi Hindus. Most migrated to India. This is a record…
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