Sindhi Boli Otaak

After India was partitioned in 1947, a large number of Hindu Sindhis had to leave their homeland in Sindh which became part of Pakistan. Most of these Sindhis chose to stay in independent India but were not able to settle in one place as they were not allocated a separate state or region. However, a small piece of land was given to Sindhis in Kutch, Gujarat. Courageous and resourceful Sindhis buil...

Dr. Dharam Ramnani is a board-certified anatomic and clinical pathologist in private practice since 1999 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He received his MBBS degree from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara, India, and MS (Biological Sciences) from The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. He completed pathology residency and surgical pathology fellowship from Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Cen...

In this episode we meet young budding Sindhi scholar Vandana Govindani. She is currently doing PhD at Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Born in a small town of central India, Vandana's initial educational journey and early life is discussed and how that leads to her decision to do research on Sindhi language and culture. She is also trying to digitise Sindhi rare books. Full of insights into...

In this episode we meet young budding Sindhi scholar Vandana Govindani. She is currently doing PhD at Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Born in a small town of central India, Vandana's initial educational journey and early life is discussed and how that leads to her decision to do research on Sindhi language and culture. She is also trying to digitise Sindhi rare books. Full of insights into...

In this episode we meet young budding Sindhi scholar Vandana Govindani. She is currently doing PhD at Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Born in a small town of central India, Vandana's initial educational journey and early life is discussed and how that leads to her decision to do research on Sindhi language and culture. She is also trying to digitise Sindhi rare books. Full of insights into...

This is first online Sindhi Reading Session series. In this series Sindhi stories, poems and other literary creations like proverbs, idioms are read. In the first session we read a poem by Meena Sharma and a story by Dr. Hundraj Balwani.

In this conversation with Mr. Mohan Gehani, we talk about Sindhi language, culture, trends in scripts used for Sindhi language. Multiple scripts have been used for Sindhi language such as Arabic, Devnagiri, Gurmukhi and Hatwanki. Lately English/Roman script is also getting promoted. We discussed how Hatwanki was used by Sindhi merchants as coded language. You can find more information about Mr. Ge...

This is Ghazal by famous Sindhi poet Narayan Shyam.

In this conversation we talk to Dr. Harish Poptani who is Professor and Chair of the Centre for preclinical Imaging at the University of Liverpool since Dec 2014. Before that he did research as post doctoral scientist in Finland and the USA where was Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA from 1997-2014. He did his Higher education - BSc - PhD - Lucknow, India 1985- 1995 and ba...

Book review of Tryst With Koki by Dr Subhadra Anand. This beautiful book that tells the story of a Sindhi family that is uprooted from its ancestorial land of Sindh. The Partition of India remains one of the tragic legacies of British imperialism. The cost of independence of India included immeasurable human suffering, loss of homeland, existential threat to the language, life and culture of Sindh...

Conversation in Sindhi and English with Dr Subhadra Anand about her passion of writing, teaching and Jhulelal. We talked about her recent book Tryst With Koki. You can find the review of that book on Sindhee Boli Otaak https://youtu.be/oBHNWJ1jDOY We talked about life in Ulhasnagar Mumbai, Sindhis enterprising spirit and never give in attitude. Role of women in resettling of Sindhis in post partit...

This is an edited version of the video podcast Reading Sindhi Poetry Online Session 1 which is available on Sindhi Boli Otaak Youtube Channel which you can watch . I read and discussed few poems of famous classical poets of Sindhi Sachal and Sami and also few contemporary poets Dholan Rahi, Sarita Sharma and Kanaiyo Mando. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: The views expressed in Sindhi Boli Podcasts are personal and do no represent any organisations that the participants and speaker may belong to. In this short podcast a simple commentary on Gulzar's beautiful Nazm on books is given. Few some urdu words are explained along with brief comments in Sindhi. Enjoy. Subscribe to audio podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcats, Amazon Prime, Spr...

Disclaimer: The views expressed in Sindhi Boli Podcasts are personal and do no represent any organisations that the participants and speaker may belong to. Welcome to Youtube channel @sindheeboli . This is part one of two parts conversation with a young Sindhi writer Isha Merchant about her book The Swing. The book tells story of her great grandmother's life who grew up in pre-partition Sindh Indi...

Disclaimer: The views expressed in Sindhi Boli Podcasts are personal and do no represent any organisations that the participants and speaker may belong to. Welcome to Youtube channel @sindheeboli . This is part one of two parts conversation with a young Sindhi writer Isha Merchant about her book The Swing. The book tells story of her great grandmother's life who grew up in pre-partition Sindh Indi...

Disclaimer: The views expressed in Sindhi Boli Podcasts are personal and do no represent any organisations that the participants and speaker may belong to. Welcome to Youtube channel @sindheeboli. This is book review in Sindhi language of The Swing by Isha Merchant.. The book tells story of her great grandmother's life who grew up in pre-partition Sindh India and had to migrate to India after the...

Disclaimer: The views expressed in Sindhi Boli Podcasts are personal and do no represent any organisations that the participants and speaker may belong to. Prof. Ganesh Devy, has written and edited close to ninety books in areas including Literary Criticism, Anthropology, Education, Linguistics and Philosophy. We hear more about how Prof. Devy came to do research in languages and culture. He carri...

Disclaimer: The views expressed in Sindhi Boli Podcasts are personal and do no represent any organisations that the participants and speaker may belong to. Episode 3: Library and wandering mind In this podcast I discuss my first encounter with great authors in Gujarat Vidyapeeth library in Ahmedabad, India. I discuss how open access libraries are important part of discovering unexpected subjects,...

Disclaimer: 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 podcast Losing Home, Finding Home by Saa...

Disclaimer: The views expressed in Sindhi Boli Podcasts are personal and do no represent any organisations that the participants and speaker may belong to. What is Sindhi Otaak podcast series? Purpose and its scope. This is an introduction to Sindhi Otaak podcast. The purpose of the podcast and its scope is described. Otaak is a Sindhi word meaning a room or drawing room where in olden days in Sin...