Shaikh Ayaz · Sindhi poet, 1923–1997
An archive for Sindhis, by one of you
720+ records
The land they remember
The districts our families name Hyderabad, Karachi, Shikarpur, Sukkur, Larkana, Khairpur, Thar & Parkar, as they were mapped before Partition. When an elder says “we were from there,” this is the there.
About this project
Dear Sindh,
I have never seen your river, nor stood in your morning light. The lanes my grandparents walked are only names to me now. And yet you are here. You are in a word my mother says without thinking, in the food we make on festival days, in the shape of my own name.
I did not know it was possible to miss a place you have never been. You taught me that it is. So I go looking for you in old books and older stories, and I write down whatever I find, in case someone else is looking too.
Sent in by you
Every name here came from a comment on our Instagram — families telling us a surname was missing, or sharing their own. We looked each one up against public sources and added it to the archive. This part of WhySoSindhi was built by the people, not by me alone.
These are family-reported leads, researched but not independently verified. Some are clearly Sindhi; a few are broader South-Asian names that need family detail to place. If one is yours, tap it, then tell us more — we'll deepen it.