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Famous Sindhi journalist and writer Mumtaz Bukhari has said it took three years to complete his study on Sindhi novels and finally it had got published in 2020 by Sindhica publishers.   He said that he visited different libraries including Sindh Archives and Institute of Sindhology, to collect reference material and hoped that the book would open new dimensions as far as research on Sindhi novels is concerned. Mr. Bukhari claimed that he has included Sindhi novels published before and after partition, while Sindhi novels being published in Sindh, India, England, America and Singapore were also included in different chapters of the book. He also claimed that he studied more than 100 Sindhi novels published outside Sindh, while he has mentioned almost every Sindhi novel published in Sindh, in his study. “I was moved to conduct study on Sindhi novel because all the studies conducted prior to this one seemed to be copy and paste, while there were many discrepancies...

Renowned Pakistani politician from Sindh Ms. Sharmila Faruqi has shared her review on New York Times best-selling author Colleen Hoover’s novel “It ends with us” on her official twitter handle @sharmilafaruqi. Colleen Hoover is best known for adult fiction writing and this particular novel reviewed by Ms. Faruqi was published in 2016. The novel deals with issue of domestic violence against women in American society, however, the novel has received mixed reviews so far. Ms. Faruqi sharing her thoughts in video on twitter said that: “When I started reading this book, I thought it was an easy veezy romance, but while reading this book I realized that it touches upon a very important social subject and that is domestic violence. It is very often when we blame the victim, the woman in a marriage or in a relationship for not working out earlier and why is she putting all that abuse? Once you read this book, you do realize how difficult it is to walk out in an abusive re...

In older days people used to visit brothels, prostitutes or sex-workers to gain sexual satisfaction, in the sub-continent it was generally believed that visiting a brothel fortnightly or once in a month strengthened the marriage relationship. However, after the rapid growth of internet even sexual satisfaction has become digitalized, and a whole new generation walks between us and that generation is called “Porn Generation”.   Some years back when I used to work in a news agency, I caught many of my colleagues watching porn at work place during working hours, they also used to exchange such videos with each other and from time to time, they used to demand whether someone had got a new video. I was forced to write this blog after I heard a sad story of one of my friends, who also happens to be a writer, some time ago when we met, he seemed confused and worried, when I asked him what was the reason? He told me that without watching porn he was unable to get proper e...

The place in which Buddhist monks live as community is known as monastery, or mith, they are also called Samna or Samgha. There are as many as 227 disciplinary rules to live in Buddhist Monastery. Some those rules are as under: 1 -     Restrain from sexual relationship. 2 -     Don’t steal. 3 -     No bloodshed. 4 -     Don’t claim fake achievements. Rules of Samgha-Desisas: 1-     Don’t release male sperm. 2-     Don’t touch a woman. 3-     Don’t talk to a woman rudely. 4-     Don’t flirt or seduce a woman. 5-     Couples in love should stay away from each other. 6-     House construction should not exceed 2.7/1.6 meters. 7-     Don’t create dispute among monks. 8-     Don’t support any such monk who tries to create dispute among monks. Rules of Aniyatas: 1- ...