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Showing posts with label Sindh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sindh. Show all posts
Monday, October 7, 2013
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
The Tombs of Makli
Makli
Hill is one of the largest necropolises in the world, with a diameter
of approximately 8 km. It lies approx. 98 km east of Karachi and is the
burial place of some 125,000 local rulers, Sufi saints and others. Makli
is located on the outskirts of Thatta, the capital of lower Sindh until
the seventeenth century, in what is the southeastern province of
Pakistan.It was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1981 under the name of Historical Monuments of Thatta.
Legends abound about its inception, but it is often believed that the cemetery grew around the shrine of a fourteenth-century Sarwa, Muhammad Hussain Abro. According to other sources however, the credit for establishing Makli as a holy place for worship and burial goes to the immigrant saint, poet and scholar Shaikh Hammad Jamali and the then local ruler, Jam Tamachi.[3] Another legendary person buried at Makli is the saint Pir Murad (1428-1488).
Legends abound about its inception, but it is often believed that the cemetery grew around the shrine of a fourteenth-century Sarwa, Muhammad Hussain Abro. According to other sources however, the credit for establishing Makli as a holy place for worship and burial goes to the immigrant saint, poet and scholar Shaikh Hammad Jamali and the then local ruler, Jam Tamachi.[3] Another legendary person buried at Makli is the saint Pir Murad (1428-1488).
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Thar Desert : One amongst the largest deserts in the World
Thar is a arid region in the north western part of Indian
subcontinent, it lies mostly in Indian state of Rajasthan but it covers
eastern Sindh province and the southeastern portion of Pakistan’s Punjab
province. It is amongst one of the largest deserts in the world rich
multifaceted culture, heritage, traditions, folk tales, dances and
music. The poetic expression of Kafi written by Sufi poets of Sindh
resonates in the cold nights as the Thari musicians start singing them
on sorrowing rhythmic beats. In the night the granules of the sand lit
up like stars as the moonlight walks on them.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Poetry and Music of Sindh Province
Poetry
Sindhi poetry is also prominent in Sindhi
culture. Poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. Sachal Sarmast is very
famous amongst all of Pakistanis. Regional poets are Shaikh Ayaz, Ustaad
Bhukhari, Ahmed Khan Madhoosh, Adal Soomro, Ayaz Gul, Abdul Ghaffar
Tabasum, G.N.Qureshi, Rukhsana Preet, Waseem Soomro. Many Sindhi poets are doing their poetry work continuously.
Music
Music from Sindh province is sung in Sindhi,
and is generally performed in either the "Baits" or "Waee" styles. The
Baits style is vocal music in Sanhoon (low voice) or Graham (high
voice). Waee instrumental music is performed in a variety of ways using a
string instrument. Waee, also known as Kafi, is found in the
surrounding areas of Balochistan, Punjab, and Kutch.
Province Sindh, Pakistan
Sindh is one of the five provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, large numbers of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can also be found. Sindh is bounded to the west by the Indus River and Balochistan, to the north by Punjab, and to the south by the Arabian Sea. The main language spoken is Sindhi by about 40 million people. The name is derived from the Indus River that separates it from Balochistan and the greater Iranian Plateau. This river was known to the to the ancient Iranians in Avestan as Harauhuti, in Sanskrit as Sarasvati, to Assyrians (as early as the seventh century BC) as Sinda, to the Greeks as Indos, to the Romans as Indus, to the Persians as Ab-e-sind, to the Pashtuns as "Abasind", to the Arabs as Al-Sind, to the Chinese as Sintow, and to the Javanese as the Santri.
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