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Ali Muhammad Rind, well-known as Ali Baba was one of the doyens of Sindhi fiction after partition. Interestingly, he was also one of the first full-time writers, and mostly he did not give stories without claiming royalty. He was born in Kotri, a twin town of Hyderabad, but in a different District, probably on 7th July 1940. He was schooled there up to the Matriculation. Then he did not pursue further formal education. At a very early age, he developed a passion for writing fiction. Writing Career About his writing career, he himself tells us in the preface of the novel Mohen jo Daro , published by New Fields Publications, Hyderabad in 1985, in the following words: “I could recall that I commenced to write this novel ( Mohen jo Daro ) when I was around eleven or twelve years old…Whenever any shape, character, or place appeared on the canvas of my mind, I would recreate it onto the paper. I considered this whole exercise more important than the school work. Especially, I used to v...

  On December 25, 1925, in the remote village of Ibrahim Kachhi, Taluka and District Dadu, a remarkable individual was born, who would later become an iconic scholar of Sindh studies, as well as a renowned irrigation engineer, agriculturist, and horticulturist. For over fifty years, Muhammad Hussain Panhwar dedicated himself to enriching the scholarship of Sindh, authoring insightful essays and books on history, archaeology, irrigation, and water management. As an agriculturist, his contributions extended to producing innovative varieties of fruits, leaving a lasting legacy across multiple fields. In 1945, at the age of 20, Panhwar wrote his first book in Sindhi, titled Muslim Aurat . This work, as noted by Shaikh Ayaz, “described the position of women in various religious and social laws and the place they occupied in Sindh.” [1] However, Panhwar later transitioned to writing primarily in English, which left many general readers unaware of his extensive body of work. Fortunatel...