Sindhis
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Partition Stories
A fulfilling life – Hira Thakur Bhojwani 3 Jan 1923 – 26 Dec 2023
Yesterday, 3 Jan 2024, would have been Hira’s 101st birthday – but she passed away just a few days before.…
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Anthropology
Life along Indo-Pak Border in Rajasthan: A Cultural Insight
Rajasthan- ‘the land of kings’, with its unique desert terrain, is identified with a nomadic, semi-nomadic and royal culture. Khyati…
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Anthropology
Border villages in India, Pakistan divided by map, united by love
Residents of Sindh (Pakistan) and Marwar (India) not only have a shared cultural and social history, but they also have…
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Sindh Studies
The Inheritors of a Rare Kind
Sindhis are basically spiritual and philanthropists; they are homely and responsible. Sindhi men are clean and sincere, and Sindhi women…
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Interview
Longing for a homeland never seen
The poet and her translators Rekha Sachdev Pohani, Barkha Khushalani and Shobha Lalchandani talk about the project By Suhit Bombaywala…
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Partition Stories
Indur Manghanmal Malkani’s story – From Sukkur to India
Indur says his family was well-off. His father, in partnership with his two brothers, were in the jewelry business Partition…
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Anthropology
A Jain Sadhu’s Pilgrimage to Sindh (Part-XXXV)
There’s no organized congregation which works towards elimination of ill-customs and superstition among women [Editor’s Note: This is Part 32…
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News
Sindhis of Ulhasnagar soon to have Sindhu Nagar Metro Station
The place, formerly a British military camp known as Kalyan Camp, was named as Ulhasnagar in 1949. Sindhis wanted to…
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Partition Stories
From Karachi to Malaysia-Shankar Sukhani’s story
To leave Karachi, the family took a ship to Gujarat, then onward to Jaipur to reach the refugee camps that…
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Partition Stories
From Hyderabad to Malaysia – Sunita Ram Binwani’s story
At the time of Partition, Sunita was around six years old. She recalls a building in their area known as…
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