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 Center, Dallas, Texas, and urologic pathology fellowship from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, before settling down in Richmond. Dr. Ramnani has been passionate about photographing human cancers from the early days of his residency training. He has collected several hundred thousand images which he hopes to share with a world-wide audience on this site. Dr Dharmani's online archive of images of cancer slides

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 a young persons educational and professional choices. Many shaping moments are discussed with a message for Sindhi parents and youngsters. You can read Vandana's research article here  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380203073_Sindhi_literature_in_post-partition_India_marginalization_challenges_and_digital_interventions

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 a young persons educational and professional choices. Many shaping moments are discussed with a message for Sindhi parents and youngsters. You can read Vandana's research article here 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380203073_Sindhi_literature_in_post-partition_India_marginalization_challenges_and_digital_interventions

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 a young persons educational and professional choices. Many shaping moments are discussed with a message for Sindhi parents and youngsters.

You can read Vandana's research article here 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380203073_Sindhi_literature_in_post-partition_India_marginalization_challenges_and_digital_interventions

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. Gehani at www.mohangehani.com A particular essay on Sindhi language referred in the podcast is on page 59 of book titled A Gateway to Sindhi Literature by Mr Gehani accessible from his website https://mohangehani.com/essays/a-gateway-to-sindhi-literature-by-mohan-gehani/

Jawaharlal Nehru's quote in Chapter 4 of the above book (p.59): "A change in the script is a very vital change for any language with a rich past, for the script is the most intimate part of its literature. Change the script and a different word and picture arises, different sounds and different ideas- an almost instrumental barrier is put between the old literature and the new and and it becomes a foreign language that is dead."

Nineteenth century Swiss linguist Ferdinand de-Saussure mentioned in the podcast. More about him can be found here https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-de-Saussure

Sindhi Scholars mentioned in podcast include Dr. Sandhya Kundnani, Hari Dilgir, Professor Khubchandani, Dr Satish Rohra, Dr Parso Gidwani, Sahib Bijani and others.

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 basic education - Kanpur, Ranchi, Patna. Born to a Sindhi family in Devlali Camp (near Nasik), can speak Sindhi fluently. Besides professional activities, am quite active with the UK Hindi Association, based in London, towards teaching Hindi (reading, writing and speaking) to first and second generation Indians. We talked about his inspiration, upbringing and interest educational and professional journey. His three messages for young people as well as his humble service to humanity motivation are worth listening. He is a brain scientist. His research area is MRI imaging and its use to support brain cancer treatment.

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 Sindhi people, particularly Hindu Sindhis who were in minority in Sindh before the Partition. The book tells the story of a resilient community that survived the chaotic migration from Sindh which became part of newly created Pakistan in 1947.

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 partition India. Role of teaching and schools. We talked about motivation of Dr Subhadra Anand to write this book. We also talked about Sindhi Sangat and Indian Institute of Sindhology. www.sindhisangat.com www.sindhology.org

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!

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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.
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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 India and had to migrate to India after the partition of India in 1947, Padma Bajaj, the protagonist of this factually based novel is a headstrong, feminist growing in 1930s and 1940s Sindh, who becomes a key source of wisdom, guidance and strength to her husband, children, grand children. The complex geopolitical context of the time with India's freedom struggle, world war two in the background make the story gripping and great read. You can buy the book in India and other countries. Here is link to Isha's website https://ishamerchant.com/

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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 India and had to migrate to India after the partition of India in 1947, Padma Bajaj, the protagonist of this factually based novel is a headstrong, feminist growing in 1930s and 1940s Sindh, who becomes a key source of wisdom, guidance and strength to her husband, children, grand children. The complex geopolitical context of the time with India's freedom struggle, world war two in the background make the story gripping and great read. You can buy the book in India and other countries. Here is link to Isha's website https://ishamerchant.com/

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 partition of India in 1947, Padma Bajaj, the protagonist of this factually based novel is a headstrong, feminist growing in 1930s and 1940s Sindh, who becomes a key source of wisdom, guidance and strength to her husband, children, grand children. The complex geopolitical context of the time with India's freedom struggle, world war two in the background make the story gripping and great read. You can buy the book in India and other countries. Here is link to Isha's website https://ishamerchant.com/

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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 carried out one of the largest public linguistic survey in India and wrote many multilingual books based on findings. We hear fascinating story of Sign languages in India. We hear why Prof. Devy calls language as a bridge between consciousness and the universe. G. N. Devy has received several Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was awarded Padma Shri on 26 January 2014 in recognition of his work with denotified and nomadic tribes and endangered languages. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award (1993) for After Amnesia, and the SAARC Writers’ Foundation Award (2001) for his work with denotified tribals. He was given the reputed Prince Claus Award (2003) for his work for the conservation of tribal arts and craft. His Marathi book Vanaprasth received eight awards including the Durga Bhagwat Memorial Award and the Maharashtra Foundation Award. Along with Laxman Gaikwad and Mahashweta Devi, he was one of the founders of The Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group (DNT-RAG). He won the 2011 Linguapax Prize for his work for the preservation of linguistic diversity.

Find out more about Prof. Ganesh Devy's work at following links:

Public Linguistic Survey of India https://bhasharesearch.org/plsi

http://www.gndevy.in/

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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, writers and ideas. I also reflect briefly on the book The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner. How wandering mind can generate creative solutions for difficult solution is described.

Books/articles referred in the podcast:

Baird, Benjamin, Jonathan Smallwood, Michael D. Mrazek, Julia WY Kam, Michael S. Franklin, and Jonathan W. Schooler. "Inspired by distraction: Mind wandering facilitates creative incubation." Psychological science 23, no. 10 (2012): 1117-1122.

Heilbroner, Robert L. The worldly philosophers: The lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers. Simon and Schuster, 2011.

Klinger, Eric. "Daydreaming and fantasizing: Thought flow and motivation." In Handbook of imagination and mental simulation, pp. 225-239. Psychology Press, 2012.
Smith, Adam. The wealth of nations [1776]. Vol. 11937. na, 1937.
Smith, Adam. The theory of moral sentiments. Penguin, 2010.

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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 Saaz Aggarwal
Publisher ‏ : ‎ black-and-white fountain (14 August 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9383465328
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9383465323
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 years and up

Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstien
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan (1 October 2020); Pan Macmillan UK
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509843523
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509843527

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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 Sindh, people use to sit and discuss social and other matters. It seems to be borrowed in Sindhi from Persian, where it is pronounced something like utaq. It is also found in Turkish اطاق (otagh) Noun T A room, a chamber. A compartment. A cabin. [The Turkish word is اوطه]
اطاق یذیرائی A parlour. A drawingroom. A reception room.
اطاق نشیمن A sitting-room.
اطاق تجارت Chamber of Commerce.



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