The first artifact at the entrance to a new exhibition about the Sindhi experience of the India-Pakistan Partition is a massive wood-carved balcony. This popular Shikarpur, Pakistani design gave Sindhi women living in closed houses a way to interact with the outside world. We called these balconies Muhari.
It is a clever artifact to display at the Partition Museum’s The Lost Homeland of Sindh exhibition hall in Delhi. Outsiders now have to invade the very private suffering of the Sindhi community through it.
This is a very important display. The Sindhi community today believes that their narrative ought to be shared. Rita Kothari, an English professor at Ashoka University and a visiting lecturer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, stated, “They didn’t, all these years.”
