https://www.scmp.com/rss/328618/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com It was the summer of 2008. May 12, to be precise. Like everyone else in his Shanghai neighbourhood, Tony Daryanani, who owns a tailor’s shop in the heart of the city, was glued to his television screen as it flashed images of the deadly earthquake that had struck Sichuan province. It was impossible not to be touched by the horrors the quake had caused. A nation was in mourning, and Tony felt he had to do his bit. He took out an advertisement that said: “Throw in your old suit and get a new one... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/2163873/meet-shanghais-ace-indian-tailor-who-got-measure-chinese-nba-star?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/2163873/meet-shanghais-ace-indian-tailor-who-got-measure-chinese-nba-star?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Sep 2018 05:30:00 +0000 Daryanani, Lalwani, Malpani, Chatlani, Chandiramani. No matter where you might come across a Sindhi, their distinctive surnames make them easy to spot. The same is true even when they anglicise their first names, as they often do, in an effort to integrate in a foreign land, and Haresh becomes Harry and Kishan turns into Kenny. Although they remain unmistakably Sindhi, it is this ability to adapt that has seen this community, whose origins go back to Sindh province in Pakistan, succeed. Today,... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2163911/sindhis-shanghai-how-indian-diaspora-cracked-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2163911/sindhis-shanghai-how-indian-diaspora-cracked-china?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Sep 2018 04:30:45 +0000