After the Water, They Rose

After the Water, They Rose

By Naimatullah Sawand In Sindh’s villages—Khairpur, Thatta, Mirpurkhas—you hear stories of struggle everywhere. You see it in the cracked fields. In the broken roads. In the faces of women who, for as long as anyone remembers, were told to stay home, stay quiet, stay out of decisions. For generations, these women worked from before sunrise until after dark. Farming, cooking, raising children, keeping homes together while the world outside moved …