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...other hand, the University does offer a wide variety of courses in Sindhi and Urdu (a total of seven courses in these two fields alone), not to mention Aramaic and Gujarati...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: STUFF I THINK: | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

...essay "Discrimination and Discord in Asia" [April 9] hits the target, but being a Sindhi myself, I can say that Sindhis and Punjabis have been living no less peacefully in the past few centuries than the English and the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 16, 1965 | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...Indian and a cobra, strangle the Indian first," the saying goes in Indo-China. Javanese peasants say, "When you meet a snake and a slit-eye [Chinese], first kill the slit-eye, then the snake." Among Punjabis the proverb is, "If you spy a serpent and a Sindhi, get the Sindhi first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DISCRIMINATION & DISCORD IN ASIA | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

After a pampered passage from India, four "Red Sindhi" cattle-two bulls, two cows-chewed their cuds last week in a New Jersey cow barn. They were the first Indian cattle to enter the U.S. since 1924. When sufficiently rested from a plane-ship-plane journey, they would start a major breeding project: begetting cows to bulge with milk on the humid, hot Gulf Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air-Cooled Cows | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Sindhis" are among the best milch cattle in India, although their production, averaging 2,000 Ibs. a year, is poor by U.S. standards (5,800 Ibs. average). But the Bureau of Animal Industry hopes to develop eventually a Sindhi-Jersey cross which will combine good milking qualities with ability to thrive and flourish in hot climates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air-Cooled Cows | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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