Parveen Talpur is a writer, historian and archaeologist. She began her writing career by publishing feature articles in two of the most prestigious English language newspapers ‘Dawn’ and ‘Pakistan Times’. Talpur’s first opportunity to present her research paper was at the UNESCO sponsored symposium on Indus Valley Civilization (2600-1900 BCE) in January 1979.
From 1990-1997 Talpur had been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, New York where she worked on the decipherment of ancient cryptic symbols discovered from Indus Valley Civilization. The results of her research were first published in Wisconsin Archaeological Reports Vol. 3, 1994. Later they were published as a book ‘Evidence of Geometry in Indus Valley Civilization 2500-1500 B.C.’ (Institute of Sindhology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro. 1995).
Her second project at Cornell was on British colonization of Sindh. This resulted in the publication of her book ‘Talpur Rule in Sindh’ (Ferozsons (Pvt) Ltd. Lahore, 2002). In 2006 she published her first book of verse ‘Footnotes’ (Ferozsons (Pvt) Ltd. Lahore). Apart from books Talpur has to her credit short stories, poems, essays and a significant number of feature articles in Pakistani and American newspapers and magazines.
Talpur also taught at the Elmira College and Binghamton University, New York. She spent 2007 in Pakistan as a visiting professor at University of Sindh, Jamshoro.
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