Barkha Khushalani

Name : Mrs. Barkha Jagdish Khushalani DOB : 30-08-1959 Occupation: Retired from AIR INDIA as Manager

About: Barkha Khushalani (Sindhu) is the daughter of Daadi Paru Chawla. A poetess, columnist, translator and promoter of Sindhi music and culture, Barkha Khushalani is also a co-manager of Sita Sindhu Bhavan.

Achievements

• 2014 : Translated Sindhi stories penned by Mr. Thakur Chawla (My father) into English - ‘Spice of life’
• 2015 : Translated Biography of Mr. Harish Dubey written in Sindhi by Mr. Holaram Hans into English - ‘A Passionate Sindhi’
• 2016 : Translated English stories penned by Mrs. Sudha Murty from her book ‘The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk’ into Sindhi (Devnagiri and Arabic

Scripts) 'मूं खीरु पीअणु छॾे ॾिनो’

• 2016 : Translated English proverbs & sayings written by Dr. Abdul Kalam in English into Sindhi (both scripts) named ‘gmoZhar gwI{Z’
• 2018 : Penned poems for children in Sindhi (both scripts) called ‘SmT>r Wr dUr’
• 2019 :
  • (A) Translated of English book ‘Sindhiyat’ written by Mr. Tulsidas Pahuja into Sindhi Devanagari script.
  • (B) Translated Sahitya Award winning book in Hindi ‘nam`m’ into Arabic Sindhi.
  • (C) Translated The Life of Sant Sahib Wadhuram from Arabic Sindhi into

English.

• Contributing Poems and Articles in Sindhi and English towards ‘The Hindvasi’

Sindhi Weekly newspaper.

AWARDS

2019 : (A) Won an Award from Maharashtra Sindhi Sahitya Academy in September 2019 for the book ‘_y§ Iré nrAUw N>S>o {S> Zmo’

2020 : NCPSL Award for ‘S

mT>r Wr dUr’

Books written by Barkha Khushalani

• Daadi Thee Vane book of Sindhi Poems in Sindhi & Devanagari Script
• Sindhiyat Book, translation in Sindhi