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''Mehran'' () is a quarterly literary magazine of the
Sindhi Adabi Board Sindhi Adabi Board is a government sponsored institution in Pakistan for the promotion of Sindhi literature. It was established in 1955 in Jamshoro, Sindh. It is under the Education Department of the Government of Sindh. Activities The or ...
. It is the oldest magazine in
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and was started in 1947. Thousands of ''Mehran'' editions have been published. The magazine writes about all Sindhi literary people in its editions. It usually creates a particular edition for a single person, like Shaikh Ayaz,
Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi (; September 20, 1911 – April 1, 1982) was a Sindhi historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, met ...
,
Mirza Qalich Baig Mirza Qaleech Baig () was a Sindhi scholar within Sindhi literature. He was born on 4 October 1853 in Tando Thoro on the bank of Phuleli Canal in Hyderabad, British India (presently in Pakistan). Family chronicle The lives of the Mirza fa ...
, and many more. ''Mehran'' also provides an opportunity for new writers to write in it and many famous scholars started their careers with writing in the magazine. In 2007 the Sindhi Adabi Board could not publish the magazine due to financial problems.


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