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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2011
Launch of SUNRISE OVER VALIVADE at Hyderabad Literature Festival 2025
SUNRISE OVER VALIVADE by Susheel Gajwani is a historical record and an intimate family account. This video shows the book launch at Hyderabad Literary Festival. The book is introduced by its publisher, Saaz Aggarwal, followed by a reading by her, the author Susheel Gajwani, and Sindhi litterateur Barkha Khushalani. The subsequent audience interaction brings to light information about the book as well about the Sindhi language and community.
SUNRISE OVER VALIVADE emerges from the well-populated yet little-known Gandhinagar Refugee Camp at Valiwade, Kolhapur. It tells a story of heartbreak and devastation met with resilience and determination. It brings to light a history obscured by time, and the remarkable feats of ordinary men and women who adapted swiftly to their tragic loss and displacement, continuing to strive with all their might, to secure a better future for the generations that followed. Poignancy weaves through this narrative, connecting rejection with reconciliation, loss of cultural heritage with relentless efforts to rebuild lives of comfort and dignity, and the past with the present.
This book received praise from many well-known writers and intellectuals. The cover carries blurbs from Jerry Pinto and Anand Patwardhan:
“An important book, a record of the time after Partition, when the Sindhi community began the rebuilding of their lives in refugee camps.”
JERRY PINTO
“Sunrise over Valiwade is an eye-opener. The widespread image of Sindhis in India has always been of savvy, well-to-do businessmen. Here we get a poignant glimpse into the lives of a people, now without means, displaced from their ancestral homes and made to settle in a new land at the mercy of those who already occupied it. It is a universal story, told with compassion. One can only imagine that it mirrors the story of refugees on the other side of every border, in the man-made tragedy of Partition.”
ANAND PATWARDHAN
Sindhis are seen all around the world - generally well settled and prosperous. Their presence is invariably taken for granted, their origins seldom considered, or understood, or even acknowledged. They are often reduced to shallow caricatures, moulded into a one-dimensional monolith. Books like this allow the rich, multi-layered reality to emerge.
SUNRISE OVER VALIVADE emerges from the well-populated yet little-known Gandhinagar Refugee Camp at Valiwade, Kolhapur. It tells a story of heartbreak and devastation met with resilience and determination. It brings to light a history obscured by time, and the remarkable feats of ordinary men and women who adapted swiftly to their tragic loss and displacement, continuing to strive with all their might, to secure a better future for the generations that followed. Poignancy weaves through this narrative, connecting rejection with reconciliation, loss of cultural heritage with relentless efforts to rebuild lives of comfort and dignity, and the past with the present.
This book received praise from many well-known writers and intellectuals. The cover carries blurbs from Jerry Pinto and Anand Patwardhan:
“An important book, a record of the time after Partition, when the Sindhi community began the rebuilding of their lives in refugee camps.”
JERRY PINTO
“Sunrise over Valiwade is an eye-opener. The widespread image of Sindhis in India has always been of savvy, well-to-do businessmen. Here we get a poignant glimpse into the lives of a people, now without means, displaced from their ancestral homes and made to settle in a new land at the mercy of those who already occupied it. It is a universal story, told with compassion. One can only imagine that it mirrors the story of refugees on the other side of every border, in the man-made tragedy of Partition.”
ANAND PATWARDHAN
Sindhis are seen all around the world - generally well settled and prosperous. Their presence is invariably taken for granted, their origins seldom considered, or understood, or even acknowledged. They are often reduced to shallow caricatures, moulded into a one-dimensional monolith. Books like this allow the rich, multi-layered reality to emerge.
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A tribute to Menghraj Talreja (1924-2024)
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The artist Menghraj Talreja (8 Nov 1924 to 20 Jul 2024) passed away a few weeks before his 100th birthday. Very few Sindhis take up art as a profession, and his story is unique indeed. Born in Shikarpur, his skill and his commitment to art was so strong that he was able to move away from a career in trade and money-lending that young men of the community led, to study and then teach art. After ...
Saaz's curatorial note for the Sindhi art exhibition at Pradarshak Art Gallery Oct 2024
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As a researcher on the Sindhi diaspora, my main objective has been to create and disseminate good-quality information about the community. When Gallery Pradarshak invited me to speak at their Women’s Day show in March 2024, a new goal arose, from a feeling that had been growing in me through the years - to sensitise Sindhis to art. Linking the Fireflies described it well - a movement to celebra...
Shamlu's Sindh stories | Tapestry Podcast | S2 E1
มุมมอง 287ปีที่แล้ว
Shamlu Dudeja was born in Sindh, and in this episode she talks about her life as a child there, going to school in Karachi, and visiting the family’s pir Nasir Faqir Jalalani, in his village. One of her spectacular memories is of 14 August 1947 and seeing the flag of Pakistan being hoisted for the first time in history. Join us on the Tapestry podcast and take a step closer to understanding Sin...
Sindhi food - beyond papad! | Tapestry Podcast | Ep 8
มุมมอง 339ปีที่แล้ว
Food is that one thing that links every Sindhi family back to its lost traditions. Most Sindhi families eat a wide range of world foods, but have also carried the lost-homeland recipes with them to every corner of the planet. In this final episode of the Tapestry podcast’s first season, you are going to enjoy mirchi pakoras a long way from home, samosas as a starter at a Chinese restaurant with...
Their dedication to education | Tapestry Podcast | Ep 7
มุมมอง 248ปีที่แล้ว
People think of Sindhis as committed to business and money. This episode is about how important education was in Sindh, the thrust for women’s education and the yearning for a life of the mind. People strived for education for their children, knowing that it paved the way for a better life. After Partition, Sindhis set up schools and colleges in the places where they settled so that the educati...
Partition | Tapestry Podcast | Ep 6
มุมมอง 191ปีที่แล้ว
Even 75 years after Partition took place in 1947, and despite the huge number of Sindhis affected by it, Sindh has not yet been accepted as an essential part of the mainstream narrative. This episode is a conversation with expert Nandita Bhavnani whose research on the topic, and her book The Making of Exile, cover the chronology of events as well as the many layers of experience, loss, and feel...
Fighting for freedom | Tapestry Podcast | Ep 5
มุมมอง 98ปีที่แล้ว
Sindh was the final frontier of the British empire. This episode is about how the Hindus fared under British rule, the changes that laid the ground for Partition - and how freedom was won. As always, there are many stories from different sources including some really dramatic ones of life at the time and how people stood up to fight for freedom. A very special guest, Dr Subash Bijlani, joins us...
Sindhi multinationals in colonial times | Tapestry Podcast | Ep 4
มุมมอง 194ปีที่แล้ว
This episode, about the centuries-old global trading networks centred on Sindh, has stories and a lot of light-hearted conversation, as always. But the high point is an interview with the reclusive Claude Markovits, who speaks about how he embarked on his pathbreaking research as well as various other topics from Gandhi to the plight of the women left at home, and his own experiences with some ...
Land of multi-faith harmony | Tapestry Podcast | Ep 3
มุมมอง 89ปีที่แล้ว
Sindhi Hindus lost their homeland to Partition on the grounds of religion. However, religion was never a strongly divisive factor in Sindh! In this episode, the Tapestry podcast explores the syncretic fabric of the community before Partition; the fundamental embracing of Sikhism, Sufism, and the goodness of every religion in every Hindu family of Sindh. Anthropologist Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro showc...
I left my heart in … | Tapestry Podcast | Ep 2
มุมมอง 149ปีที่แล้ว
The Sindhi Hindus left their homes and everything in them - but they carried so much in their hearts. Their feelings of love, nostalgia, and longing, for the places they had lost shows itself in many different ways. This episode shows the sad, interesting and even funny aspects of this phenomenon. It shows the ways in which Hindus of Sindh built these places that they had to leave behind foreve...
Stories from a Vanished Homeland | Tapestry Podcast | Ep 1
มุมมอง 434ปีที่แล้ว
The Sindhi story is so little known that almost everything about it has aspects that are surprising, interesting and useful to know. In this first episode of the Tapestry podcast, Saaz Aggarwal and Tarun Sakhrani talk about why they decided to start it, and begin the process of restoring the lost legacy by sharing some wonderful information and stories that you are going to value and cherish. T...
Stories from a Vanished Homeland
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Saaz Aggarwal started the process of collecting Sindhi stories more than a decade ago, and very soon realised how much had been lost when Partition took place in 1947. It wasn’t just material loss and loss of dignity! Sindhis also lost their language. And they lost their culture. Even their history was lost and distorted. To be deprived of one’s past is to inherit an impoverished future. For Si...
Restoring the lost Sindhi legacy
มุมมอง 46ปีที่แล้ว
What Sindhis lost when Partition took place in 1947 is only now being gradually understood. It wasn’t just material loss and loss of dignity! Sindhis also lost their language. They lost their culture. Even their history was lost and distorted. To be deprived of one’s past is to inherit an impoverished present. For Sindhis, this podcast is the opportunity to reconnect with a long-lost legacy, an...
Dr Murli Melwani, a Sindhi writer who has made his mark in English Literature
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A recording of a paper presented at a Sahitya Akademi Seminar on Sindhi writers who have contributed in languages other than Sindhi, on 9 March 2022, by Saaz Aggarwal
Nandu Asrani on Sindhi business secrets
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Nandu Asrani on Sindhi business secrets
Sindhi Tapestry at The KR Cama Oriental Institute
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Sindhi Tapestry at The KR Cama Oriental Institute
My Sindh by Shakuntala Bharvani, discussed at Asiatic Society Mumbai's Literary Club on 12 Aug 2021
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My Sindh by Shakuntala Bharvani, discussed at Asiatic Society Mumbai's Literary Club on 12 Aug 2021
Nandu Asrani on doing business, the Shikarpuri-Sindhi way
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Nandu Asrani on doing business, the Shikarpuri-Sindhi way
Living life to the fullest by Tarun Sakhrani
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Living life to the fullest by Tarun Sakhrani
Be cautious about what you consume: Trisha Lalchandani
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Be cautious about what you consume: Trisha Lalchandani
your f-ing mother is sindhi herself. that means you're half Sindhi and half konkani. if you identify as only konkani and don't consider urself sindhi then dont even bother to claim to know about our rich community. :)
On my Cruise trip to Alaska, I found a Sindhi store in a Alaskan city Kachiken
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Madan Dadlani - Thank you so much for all the information of Sindhi which I know very little I will listen to all of your tapestry podcast. I am very much interested. I have no knowledge
Aad Jagat Ke Vishan hai Madhya bhi Vishan hi hoye Antt jagat ke Vishann hai, Vishan bina ne koye 🌸
So delighted to open into this video
Thank you for your wonderful efforts Adv Asif Ali Tagar from sindh 👍
Information about preparation Sind and Sindhis is valuable collation🎉
Nice. If you want Sindhi manuscripts read My parents and aunt (was a teacher in Sindhi school) can do it for you
Great effort! Saaz
Great work Saaz!
Chembur's sindhi gems are worth finding
Superb broadcast keep it up ❤
This podcast reminded me of my childhood and all these dishes that were mentioned, which my mother cooked for me and later for my children. Tarun, I live in the Philippines and maybe I know your wife. Can you tell me her maiden name?
Truly fascinating podcast on Sindhi food!
Every one in shikarpur knows Seth udodas even today due to his services
Every one in shikarpur Seth udodas even today due to his services
Glad that you brought to attention some of the forgotten Sindhi revolutionaries. That was epic ' Machi pyo khae, kheer pyo peay' Sindhis don't consume milk and fish together. Subhash Chandra Bose was a true revolutionary.
Saaz Agarwal please learn Sindhi Language Love and Respect from Sindh ❤
Glad to see Claude Markovits on the Podcast. Looking forward to future episodes with more fascinating guests.
Tando Muhammad khan - Kripalani and tharparkar - chhatani and matli - samnani dadu/dakkan - alwani @tapestry if you find any history
Interesting Podcast. 💯
Interesting Podcast, Saaz. Keep up the great work and looking forward to more episodes!
Saaz Sindhi Agarwal you are doing great work i Pakistan made name of islam it was horror dream for Sindh and Sindhi people We miss our Sindhi Hindhu ❤❤
Great work Saaz! It's wonderful to see someone shining a light on the Sindhi community and language. Your efforts in preserving the rich cultural heritage of Sindhi people are truly admirable. Keep up the excellent work, and thank you for all that you do! Love from Sindh.
Thank you so much Mazhar ❤
@@sindhi.tapestry 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Love it! I’ll be following for sure!
Sindh Spiritual identity Devotion for Humanity ❤❤ Saaz Agarwal salute you for your work
Hello, I am so thrilled to come across your video about Prospect Estate. My mom worked there in those schools as Headmistress during 1948-1977. I was born and brought up there in the Lower Prospect Estate in 1956. During my visit to India during 2016, I visited the Estate and it is totally DESERTED and abandoned.
Me also
Interesting I will read this book .
The audio is a bit low
Thank you so so much Saaz ji - what nobody cared about - not even any Sindhi - buy you have been doing it
Multan was Capital of Sindh 954 Ahmed Abad was Capital of Sindh 1492
Saaz you are doing Great job
Sindh Got heavy loss of Partition our Brothers Sindhi Hindhu left us now we are in big trouble in Pakistan
Wah sain wah!
Sain jhulelal,jhulelal!!
Sindhi’s are very hard working and smart. From refugees they have become so industrious and God fearing
We Lost our Diamond Sindhi Hindhu Sindh is still waiting for Sindhi Hindhu
Great Sindhi Hindhu were assets of Sindh we always Miss our Brothers
I got my copy recently
Thank you so much ❤️ :) Watch the full song at th-cam.com/video/E-RdxZ1fZQU/w-d-xo.html
Informative....Keep on working for the Sindhi community.
Proud to be Sindhi
Thanks. Nice to know. Born in Hyderabad sindh. Remember coming by train to Ajmeer at the time of partition. Thank God my family decided to leave. Wonder how difficult decision it must be to leave everything behind. God bless.
Saaz, you are an absolute gem to work in this area. Happy to contribute as needed. I am from a sindhi hindu family. :)
Very beautiful book launch & stories Thank u Minal Saaz Shakuntala 🌺🌺
Amazing interview Dr Shakuntala Devi Bharwani
زبردست,,,,
Wonderful Book Enjoyed it very much Congratulations Shakuntala Prof Sabita Chuganee
Shes been a professor at university of delhi right?
How and from to get this book?
It's on amazon. Or you could email blackandwhitefountain@gmail.com
Remarkable.