#Shikarpur
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Literature
Lal Muhammad ‘Lal’ – The Jewel of Sindhi literature
Shaikh Ayaz, the great poet of Sindh and his close friend also eulogized ‘Lal’ as ‘an expert in ghazal carving’,…
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Feature
Hindus & Sikhs once were significant part of Afghanistan
Today many of Gurdwaras are damaged or locked, or usurped. These communities began fleeing to Canada, UK, Germany, Pakistan and…
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Sindhis Beyond Sindh
The story of Raja Veedhi Seths
The son of Naraindas, octogenarian C.N. Rajani, or as he is fondly known, Chunilal, remembers the train journeys which took…
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Partition Stories
Collecting Memories of Partition
Partition Museum established in Amritsar, India has documented personal memories of Sindhis and others who had to leave their ancestral…
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Anthropology
Gurus of Shikarpur Sindh
In one of the narrow lanes of Shikarpur is located the famous Khatwari Darbar, which was founded by Bhai Gurdas,…
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Sindhis Beyond Sindh
Dilipkumar V. Lakhi – Humility Thy Second Name
Dilipkumar Lakhi is the CEO of Lakhi Group. Lakhi group has grown to become the largest manufacturer of cut and…
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Obituary
The legend with Vision – Remembering Shaheed Allah Bux Soomro
Allah Bux Soomro, martyred on May 14, 1943, was a nationalist in real sense; he loved his land, his people…
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History
The Shikarpuri Merchants and their Network
[The historic town of Shikarpoor (Shikarpur) in Upper Sindh, Pakistan, became an important commercial center of the region due to…
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History
Collecting Memories of Partition
The 1947 Partition Archive, a collection of oral histories, had released its cache of 4,300 stories to universities in India,…
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Memoirs
Holy Moments from an Unholy Disaster
On October 15th, 2010 armed with thirteen thousand dollars-worth of donated medical supplies and numerous bottles of vitamins, I boarded…
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