#PartitionStories
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Books & Authors
A publisher recounts her experience of working on a memoir about the Sindhi Refugee Camp in Valivade
Publisher Saaz Aggarwal’s first-person account of Susheel Gajwani’s book, ‘Sunrise Over Valivade’ Saaz Aggarwal Susheel Gajwani’s book, ‘Sunrise Over Valivade’,…
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‘Sunrise Over Valivade’: A historical record and an intimate family account
Susheel Gajwani’s memoir, the first record of a refugee camp near Kolhapur, captures the resilience, struggles, and identity of Sindhi…
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Personal Price of Politics: Sindhis
Every family affected by the partition of India, to create the nation of Pakistan, in 1947, has grandparents with stories…
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Dr. Hemandas Wadhwani: Before Partition, After Partition
Dr. Hemandas, from an Amil family of Sindh, was Sindh’s Minister of Medical & Public Health, Veterinary, and Civil Defence…
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Memories of Life in Sindh and the Migration to India
Memoirs of a family that lived in the Ramchandani Ghitti (street) of Bhurgri in Khairpur district until 1942, and then…
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A Karachi-born woman who witnessed partition, spent 7 days under a tree
Rajni Bector was born in 1940 in Karachi Sindh. Her early years were spent in Lahore, but her life took…
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The Satha-ghari Kirpalani family of Hyderabad Sindh
The grand mansion of the Satha-ghari Kirpalani family continues to stand across the congested road running in front of the…
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Sindh Studies
Saaz Aggarwal to speak on Sindh 1947 at Pune’s World Book Day event on April 20
The talk is about a collection of extraordinary stories centered on the role-model Sindhi refugees of 1947 Monitoring Desk Pune,…
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Jasoti Dadlani’s story – From Hyderabad to India
‘When we left, we were not allowed to take any of our possessions – cash, jewelry, etc.’ Partition Stories from…
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Sindh 1947
The seeds of migration were planted in the vast fields of wheat and rice. The year 1947 was a dark…
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