KARACHI/HYDERABAD: Most poets describe their poetry as an expression of love for God or beloved, however, for Sindhi poets love of land comes first. “The people of Sindh see the land as their mother - ...

KARACHI: The New Voices in Sindhi Poetry session on the second day of the fifth Karachi Literature Festival was welcomed mostly by Sindhis and people who were generally interested in the literary ...

Borders and Broken Hearts features the poetry of Gayatri Lakhiani Chawla translated into Sindhi, presented in both the Devnagari and the Perso-Arabic scripts. The poet and her translators Rekha ...

In the 16th century, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai wrote a set of love poems in Sindhi to express Sufi mysticism, metaphorically capturing the tension between love and law, head and heart In the 16th ...

On 9 June 2020, out of the blue, the way such things tend to happen, I received an email from one Anil Jaisinghani with subject line “Totally Impressed”. Anil was writing to tell me what had happened ...

In Sindh the figure of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai so impacts multiple aspects of cultural, political and religious life that it seems his poetry forms the foundation of Sindhi collective consciousness.

HYDERABAD: Sughars touc­hed burning issues of society including poverty, energy crisis, love, hatred, tragic incidents of bomb blasts, terrorism, high-fever politicking in the country and the need for ...

The 2-day Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai Children's Festival will start in the Sindh Language Authority (SLA) on November 29. The ...

We settled ourselves on a kerb. He chatted to me while he twisted, tossed, caught and rubbed a few cobbles he had picked from a traffic island nearby, and wrote imaginary words on the roadside with ...

While Cheti Chand is a reminder of the Sindhi spirit, a look at how writers are passing down identity beyond their lost land to the new generation through literature. As the sun rises over India on ...