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Risalo
Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this collection of short Sufi verses, originally composed for musical performance, the poet creates a vast imaginative world of interlocking references to traditional Islamic themes of mystical and divine love and the scenery, society, and legends of the Sindh region. Latif (1689-1752), a contemporary of the Panjabi poet Bullhe Shah, belonged to the class of Sufi saints whose shrines remain prominent features of the Sindhi landscape. The Risalo reflects Latif's profound engagement with the fundamental literature of Islam as well as his openness to varied local traditions, including notable poems praising the spiritual devotion of local Hindu yogis. This edition presents, alongside the original text in the Sindhi Naskh script, the first translation of the Risalo into modern English prose, offering a new readership access to the writings of one of the masters of Sufi poetry.-- Provided by publisher
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Count Me Too: Sentiment Analysis of Roman Sindhi Script
Social media has given voice to people around the globe. However, all voices are not counted due to the scarcity of lexical computational resources. Such resources could harness the torrent of social media text data. Computational resources for rich languages such as English are available. More are being developed, meanwhile strengthening and enhancing the current ones. However, Roman Sindhi, a resource-poor writing style, is a phonetically rich language lacking computational resources, creating a working space for researchers. This work attempts to develop lexical sentiment resources that will help calculate the public opinion expressed in Roman Sindhi and bring their point of view into the limelight. This work is one of the initial efforts to develop lexical Roman Sindhi sentiment dictionary resources to help detect sentiment orientation in a text. Furthermore, it also developed two interfaces to leverage the lexical resources—a Roman Sindhi to English translator (RoSET) that translates a Roman Sindhi feature into an equivalent English word and a Roman Sindhi rule-based sentiment scorer (RBRS3) that assigns sentiment score to a Roman Sindhi script features. The results obtained from the developed system accommodated the bilingual dataset (Roman Sindhi + English) more adequately. An increase of 20.8% was recorded for positive sentence detection, and a 16% increase was obtained for negative sentences, whereas neutral sentences were marginalized to a lower number (59.31% decrease). The resultant system makes those public voices expressed in the Roman Sindhi script get counted, which otherwise are in vain.
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Living the Asian century : an undiplomatic memoir
\"Growing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile salesman after finishing high school. Instead, a government scholarship sent him to the University of Singapore, and four years later he found himself in the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Meanwhile, almost none of Mahbubani's cousins, scattered around the world after India's brutal partition, from Guyana to Hong Kong, would complete university. During this same period, Singapore itself was undergoing a metamorphosis. Granted internal self-governance in 1959 and achieving full independence six years later, the country came of age alongside Mahbubani. And as his star rose, so did the nation's. In Living the Asian Century, Mahbubani vividly chronicles his own life going from a poor childhood in a multiethnic neighbourhood to an illustrious diplomatic career that led him far from Singapore, from Cambodia to Australia, Malaysia to the United States and the UN - including the pinnacle of influence, the Security Council. Along the way Mahbubani has become one of Asia's most widely known commentators and spokespeople, with a unique perspective that straddles India, China, and the West\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cosmopolitan Connections
This accessible book draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted in a number of sites to explore the relation between mobility, cosmopolitanism, and commerce. It is pioneering in that it looks at Sindhis, a widespread group that has so far been largely ignored by anthopologists.
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Genetic architecture of the Sindhi Indian population: a 19X-STR forensic analysis
The X chromosome accounts for approximately 5% of the human genome and serves as a valuable marker in forensic and population genetics due to its uneven and asymmetrical pattern of inheritance. This unique trait enables significant applications, including kinship testing, half-sister paternity deficiency assessments, and analyzing relationships across generations. Notably, the unequal transmission of the X chromosome where females have two X chromosomes compared to males—contributes to sex-based disparities. The use of X-STRs offers additional evidence in cases where personal identification poses challenges in forensic investigations. In both population studies and forensic analyses, X-STRs are typically examined using commercially available kits, such as the Microreader 19X STR. The present study focuses on the Sindhi population, an ethnic group in India with ancestral roots in Pakistan. We analyzed 19 X-STR loci in the Sindhi Indian population, examining allele frequencies from 206 DNA samples derived from 144 unrelated males and 62 females. Among the 19 X-STR loci analyzed, DXS10135 showed the highest polymorphism with 19 observed alleles, while DXS7133 was the least polymorphic, with only 6 alleles. The Fst distance matrix analysis, which encompassed 26 global populations, revealed that the Sindhi Indian population shares the closest genetic affinity with Pathan, Baluchi, and other Pakistani groups, demonstrating an average genetic distance of approximately 0.006. These findings underscore the genetic proximity of the Sindhi population to Indo-European-speaking groups in the region. Notably, this study presents the first comprehensive X-STR reference dataset for the Sindhi population in India, providing novel data for forensic applications and enhancing the understanding of regional population structure and differentiation in South Asia.
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