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Sindhi Boli OtaakEp.02 Losing Home Finding HomeDisclaimer: The views expressed in Sindhi Boli Podcasts are personal and do no represent any organisations that the participants and speaker may belong to.This podcast provides a review of fascinating book Losing Home Finding Home by Saaz Agarwal, with real life stories of Sindhi people who were displaced due to partition of India.Books mentioned in this podcastLosing Home, Finding Home by Saaz AggarwalPublisher : black-and-white fountain (14 August 2022)Language : EnglishHardcover : 112 pagesISBN-10 : 9383465328ISBN-13 : 978-9383465323Reading age : 8 years and upRange: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized...2023-07-0820 min
TapestrySindhi food – beyond papad!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 devoted Sindhi customers in Iquique, and Indonesian gado-gado – where else but in Chile.
This is a conversation that takes us beyond papad. It take...2023-06-2050 minTapestryTheir dedication to educationPeople 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 education of their own children would not be interrupted and their teachers and educationists would continue in their professions.
There are many high points in this episode, here ar...2023-06-1357 minTapestryPartitionEven 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 feeling that the Sindhi community underwent. The large range of topics that are brought up in this episode, with many examples and many points of discussion, give a really good idea of...2023-06-0659 minTapestryFighting for freedomSindh was the final frontier of the British empire, the last province to be conquered. 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 and speaks about life under the British and his family’s contribution to the freedom movement, with many light-hearted moments as well...2023-05-301h 02TapestrySindhi multinational companies in colonial timesThis 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 members of the community he rescued from obscurity by documenting it.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tapestrypod/message2023-05-231h 04TapestryLand of multi-faith harmonySindhi Hindus lost their homeland to Partition on the grounds of religion. However, religion was never a strongly divisive factor in pre-Partition
Sindh!
In this episode, the Tapestry podcast explores the syncretic fabric of the community; the fundamental embracing of Sikhism, Sufism – the goodness
of every religion and belief – in every Sindhi family.
Esteemed guest on the episode, anthropologist Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro showcases this culture, speaks about his extensive documentation of the multi-faith shrines of Sindh, and also his fascinating research on the Qalandar cult.
Read more on this topic on Chuharsing, Bakshusing and...2023-05-1647 minTapestryI left my heart in …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 forever. And it gives brief glimpses into some of the places of Sindh which in so many ways crossed the border too, along with the exiled ones!
...2023-05-0944 minTapestryStories from a Vanished HomelandThe 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.
This episode is a casual but thought-provoking conversation, and topics range from the ubiquitous “Sindhi and the snake”, an introduction to the inimitable Bhai Pratap, why this podcast is named “Tapest...2023-05-0245 min
TapestryRestoring the lost Sindhi legacyWhat 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, and gain a better understanding of who you are.
If you are not a Sindhi, here is an important piece of history which will enrich you with lear...2023-04-2401 min
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit VarmaSaaz Aggarwal Enters a Vanished HomelandBorders and nation states can sometimes seek to divide communities -- but isn't that a bit like cutting water with a knife? Saaz Aggarwal joins Amit Varma in episode 308 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her work chronicling the history and culture of the Sindhi people -- and her own rich life as a writer and artist. (For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.) Also check out: 1. Saaz Aggarwal on Amazon, Instagram, LinkedIn, Scroll, Open and her own website. 2. Sindh: Stories from a Vanished Homeland -- Saaz Aggarwal. 3. Sindhi Tapestry: Reflections on the Sindhi Identity -- Saaz Ag...2022-12-193h 44
Books and AuthorsBooks & Authors with Saaz Aggarwal, author, Losing Home; Finding Home"The Sindhi language of the common people, which encompasses wonderful ways of thinking, is now lost. For Sindhis in India, the language is gone, the culture is gone, and the history is also gone. That's something that I realised only recently," says Saaz Aggarwal, author, 'Losing Home Finding Home', a collection of personal accounts of the Sindhi experience of Partition, life in the refugee camps, and the subsequent process of recovery and rebuilding.
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Books and Authors61: Books & Authors podcast with Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity' | Part-2The Sindhi community in India has been stereotyped as both enterprising and hardworking, and cutthroat and flashy. Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity', talks about Partition, cultural amnesia, and much more.
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