About Soni Wadhwa, the archivist
Soni Wadhwa was born and brought up in Ulhasnagar, a large Sindhi township in Maharashtra and home to a lot of Sindhi refugees. She has been interested in Sindhi language and literature. Her MPhil dissertation titled ‘Imagined Elsewhere: Identity and Space in Selected Works of Partition and Post Partition Sindhi Literature in Translation’ was submitted to SNDT Women’s University in Mumbai. Since then, she has written about post partition Sindhi writing in India. She was entrusted with the books from Late Shri Parmanand Ghanshyamdas Library by his daughters, Sapna and Bindu, who wanted to give away their father’s books to those who could put them to good use. What began for her as a journey into reading these old books gradually grew into an archive presented on this website. She currently teaches in the Department of English at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh in India. She is a regular contributor to Asian Review of Books. Her research publications can be found here.