I was once scrolling down my Facebook account and then I stopped at a post. It was Ms. Yvonne Ridley’s photo of 20 Scottish Muslims on a mission to visit a lonely grave in the Highlands. There they prayed and remembered the deceased with due honor. I was intrigued by the fact that the very grave is up the mountains and it belongs to the
I met her in August 2017, and very much enjoyed interviewing her. One of her most striking memories was of the day in March 1931, when Bhagat Singh was executed, and all of Sindh went into mourning. Hira was a schoolgirl in Larkana where her father, Kishinchand Shivdasani, was Executive Engineer. A procession was passing by her house, and she
Jagirdari class in Sindh was formed during the time of the Kalhora and Talpur Mir rulers – Dr. Hamida Khuhro
[Translator’s note: This is a translation of renowned historian Dr. Hamida Khuhro’s comprehensive interview, originally published in the Sindhi magazine Nao Niapo, Karachi in May, 1986. The interview panel
In Western culture, and especially in the U.S., we tend to associate failure with the most serious of calamities
As the clock will strike, midnight on December 31 of this fast closing year, it will be time to make our ritual New Year Resolutions. We will start bragging about how grandly we are going to fail to keep them?
And, indeed,
Tis the season. Eggnog, mulled wine, presents, Christmas trees, yule logs, Christmas cards, Midnight Mass, food, food and more food…. The list goes on and on. The Holiday Season is one tradition after another.
In fact, you could call it the Tradition Season just as easily as the Christmas or Holiday Season. But when and where did
