@soni_archivist

Educator, Book lover, Archivist. Researches Spatiality, Sindhi literature in India. Loves contemporary fiction inspired by Buddha’s life.

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Joined March 2021
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📰 Over the weekend in the ARB: Soni Wadhwa (@Soni_Archivist) reviews “First Bite: Breakfast Stories from Urban India” by Priyadarshini Chatterjee @speakingtiger14 asianreviewofbooks.com/first…

“First Bite: Breakfast Stories from Urban India” by Priyadarshini Chatterjee

Priyadarshini Chatterjee's debut book covering the culinary kaleidoscope of urban India.

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📰 Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River: A Parable for Ordinary People” by Pavan K Varma @PenguinIndia asianreviewofbooks.com/the-l…

“The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River: A Parable for Ordinary People” by Pavan K Varma

Soni Wadhwa reviews Pavan K Varma's new book, exploring the tension between spirituality and desire, the sacred and the profane, and the elusive unity of both.

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@thetribunechdApr 8
If you ask AI to summarise Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’, you won’t be crying at the end. In her book ‘Reader Bot’, Prof Naomi S Baron warns about the subtle but dangerous damage. Soni Wadhwa reviews in #SpectrumTheTribune @stanfordpress @soni_archivist tribuneindia.com/news/book-r…

‘Reader Bot’ by Naomi S Baron: AI as the new reading genie - The Tribune

Reading has been on the decline since the rise of social media, but outsourcing reading to AI outdoes every other damage to the otherwise subtle process.

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Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics” by Margaret S Graves @PrincetonUPress asianreviewofbooks.com/invis…
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Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “Delay: A Comics Anthology”, edited by Charis Loke and Paolo Chikiamco, a collection from Southeast Asia @DEcomics_Sg asianreviewofbooks.com/delay…
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@thetribunechdJan 20
As a regionless minor language in India, Sindhi literature is not adequately invested in scholarly works. Thus, this translation of ‘Love is the Only Finality’ by Sindhi poet Sarmast is an important intervention. @soni_archivist reviews in #SpectrumTheTribune tribuneindia.com/news/book-r…

Books: Sindhi poet Sarmast and sensibilities of devotion in ‘Love Is the Only Finality’ - The...

As a regionless minor language in India, Sindhi literature is not adequately invested in critical editions, translations and scholarly works. This work, as such, was long overdue.

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Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “The Worlds of Jain Art: 17th to 21st Centuries”, edited by Phyllis Granoff and Nandita Punj @_margfoundation asianreviewofbooks.com/the-w…
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Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “The Gallery of Upside Down Women”, poetry by Arundhathi Subramaniam @BloodaxeBooks asianreviewofbooks.com/the-g…

"The Gallery of Upside Down Women" by Arundhathi Subramaniam

Indian English poet Arundhati Subramaniam’s latest poetry collection The Gallery of Upside Down Women brings together pieces about women from Indian myth and scripture across regions and languages,...

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#newpost #dhnews "Imagining a Contextual Tech for Indian Languages: A Postcard from Bahu Bhasa 2025" by Soni Wadhwa An overview of all the news in #DH and the study of languages in #India Link in bio
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Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “Bhima’s Wife” by Kavita Kané @PenguinIndia asianreviewofbooks.com/bhima…
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Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia” by Peggy Mohan @PenguinIndia asianreviewofbooks.com/fathe…
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Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “Whose Urdu Is It Anyway? Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers”, ed and tr by Rakhshanda Jalil @SimonSchusterIN asianreviewofbooks.com/whose…
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Chapter out in Designing Next-Gen Libraries: Tools and Technological Impact on Library Systems and Services, edited by Bhojaraju Gunjal and Panorea Gaitanou, De Gruyter Saur, 2025, pp. 81-94. doi.org/10.1515/978311137348… #digitallibraries #indianlanguages
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How can we map the journeys of #Sindhi books? 📖 @soni_archivist introduces Sindhi Sanchaya - a project collecting and curating metadata from scattered libraries, private collections, and #digital #archives, bringing them together in a single searchable resource. 🔗 link in bio
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Access this new piece for the #DO for free here 👇 digitalorientalist.com/2025/…

Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library

In my previous post, I wrote about potentialities: I spoke about what might be doable for the Sindhi presence within the digital archiving scene in terms of annotation, transliteration, and curatio…

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#newpost by @soni_archivist "Sindhi Halchal Archive: Building on the PG Sindhi Library" the archive is a digital collection of 2,000+ advertisements from post-1947 #Sindhi publications 📖 A glimpse into Sindhi entrepreneurial #networks, #printculture, and displacement histories
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@soni_archivist is still an active contributor for the Digital Orientalist. She has written various pieces on the application of #DH to research Sindhi and Indian literatures digitalorientalist.com/autho…

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Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars” by Erin MB O’Halloran @stanfordpress asianreviewofbooks.com/east-…
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#APostYouMayHaveMissed Having introduced the PG #Sindhi #Library #archive 2 years ago, @soni_archivist followed up her previous piece by exploring how the archive has progressed its work on annotation, transliteration, and curation. Read it here: digitalorientalist.com/2025/…

PG Sindhi Library: Revisiting the Archive after 18 Months

Archives and archive building hold great potential within the theory and praxis of digital humanities in India. Sindhi, a minor language in India, is a non-regional language. It is unique in the se…

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Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “Reformatting Agrarian Pasts: Urban History from the Countryside in Colonial India” by William J Glover @stanfordpress asianreviewofbooks.com/refor…
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