Partition
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Book Review
Chitra Divakaruni’s ‘Independence’ – An Eloquent Love Song To Her Beloved Bengal
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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Sindhis Beyond Sindh
Sunayna Pal, a Sindhi lady, yearns for home she never knew
Only recently did I learn that my maternal grandmother was from Ratedero in Larkana, and my maternal grandfather was related…
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Blogs
Visiting the Pre-partition realms of our subcontinent
Prior to partition, the subcontinent existed as British India, ruled by the Queen of England. This was a magical land…
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Languages
A mother tongue Partition consumed intact: The depletion and revival of Sindhi language and culture
A large majority of Sindhi parents stopped speaking to their children in their own language, wanting them to have a…
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Book Review
TARANDER BADAL – A Novel of Nostalgia
‘Tarandar Badal’ is the story of a Sindhi youth who had taken part in the freedom struggle movement, who was…
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Anthropology
The Role of Partition in Making Delhi What It Is Today
The bulk of the Sindhis, poor peasants and petty traders had just walked across from Karachi, Thatta, Tharparkar, Umarkot and…
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Literature
Saadat Hasan Manto and the Exploration of Madness
In his short story ‘Toba Tek Singh’, set against the background of the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, writer…
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Memoirs
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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Blogs
Religious Evolution of Sindhi Hindu Diaspora
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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Memoirs
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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