Kavi Shankar's Blogs

I remember well when former President Pervez Musharraf returned to Pakistan in March 2013; his online presence was substantial. He had over 1.2 million followers on Facebook, which led his campaign team to believe he commanded massive popular support. However, when he landed in Karachi, only around a thousand to fifteen hundred supporters gathered for him. But when the Cockroach Janta Party in India, founded online by Abhijeet Dipke in May 2026 in response to derogatory remarks made by India's Supreme Court Chief Justice about unemployed youth, arrived in India from the US, the situation was entirely different from Pervez Musharraf's reception. When the public, and young people in particular, come out onto the streets because of everyday issues, education problems, unemployment, inflation, corruption, and other troubles they face daily, the situation turns out differently. Every era has its own requirements; in today's age, the internet and social media play an extremely po...

My first English book is here: I'm thrilled to share that my debut short story collection, Incomplete: Stories of Love, Faith, and the Divine, is now live on Amazon Kindle. For twenty years, I've written short stories and poetry in Sindhi and Urdu, published across newspapers, magazines, and journals. This book brings fifteen of those stories into English for the first time: lovers arguing on a beach, gods gathering for a drunken party during lockdown, a soul begging its maker for release, a woman waiting nine hundred years for a love lost to history. Rooted in the language and literary tradition of Sindh, these stories carry echoes of writers like Amar Jaleel and the poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai and ask one quiet question in fifteen different voices: what does it mean to live a life that will never quite be finished? The cover painting is by my daughter, Vidya Devi. If you enjoy short fiction that sits between the everyday and the eternal, I'd be so grateful if you...

  For centuries, the Indus River traveled thousands of miles, nourishing cities, settlements, and plains, enriching farmland, and touching the lives of millions of people before reaching the sea. That unbroken journey created one of the world's great deltas, the Indus Delta. Where the meeting of river and sea gave rise to an ecosystem that millions of people, along with countless aquatic species, birds, and forests, depend on. But a delta shaped over centuries was pushed to the brink of collapse in just a few decades. Why Did the Delta Deteriorate? According to experts, a persistent shortage of water flowing downstream on the Indus, unchecked destruction of mangrove forests, rising sea levels, climate change, and years of government neglect severely disrupted the Indus Delta's natural balance. As a result, the sea has steadily advanced inland, swallowing millions of acres of farmland, turning underground freshwater saline, harming aquatic life, and leaving thousands of fisherme...