By Khaled Ahmed
Hindus were driven out of Sindh after 1947. They went to the neighbouring Indian state of Gujarat but were not accepted there by the local Hindu communities. Shockingly, these very Hindus, partly to be accepted as true Hindus, participated in the anti-Muslim violence in Godhra in Gujarat in 2002. Continue reading Sindhi Hindus in Gujarat
Sindhi doctor Safana Makhdoom, an Edmonton family doctor, provided medical aid to Syrian migrants arriving by boat to the Greek island of Lesbos. Continue reading Sindhi Doctor saves lives of Syrian refugees
Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for his discoveries on how cells recycle their content, a process known as autophagy, a Greek term for “self-eating.”
Continue reading Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan Wins Nobel Prize for Study of ‘Self-Eating’ CellsOnce, while discussing the history, a Sindhi writer Yousuf Shaheen said that, Sindh was not just an independent state but an empire before invasion of Arabs. It took Arabs 78 years to capture Sindh after 18 attacks.
Continue reading Sindh was not just an independent state but an empireIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. ~ Charles Dickens
The Indus civilisation seems to have flourished for 700 years without armour, weapons, inequality or royalty. Here’s how to build a paradise on Earth
Continue reading The real utopia: This ancient civilisation thrived without war
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