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A language carried through generations

Sourashtra.

Our language. Our story. Our people.

Language

A language. A living connection.

Spoken at home. Written in our own script. Carried into another generation.

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History

Many threads. A shared story.

Journeys, craft and the lives that connect us. Discover the histories woven into our community.

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Community

Wherever we are. We belong.

Around a table. Across an ocean. A place for Sourashtrians to stay connected.

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Horat-vano

Find a match.
Within the family.

Free for the community, with horoscope matching built in.

Visit matrimony.palkar.org A groom placing a metti toe ring on the bride during a wedding, her foot resting on the ammi stone

History

Journeys.
Lives. Language.

Explore the people, places and evidence behind our story.

Learn more Madurai silk saris folded on a wooden table beside a handloom

Recipes

Ambhat Bhaath.

If a Sourashtrian didn't make it, you haven't had puliyodharai.

Start cooking Ambhat Bhaath, Sourashtra tamarind rice with peanuts and curry leaves, served on a banana leaf

Language

Write it
in our own script.

Fonts, keyboard layouts and the Padamala.

Get the fonts A silk veshti with a gold border, the word Sourashtra embroidered on it in Sourashtra script

A quarter century online.
Built by the community, for the community.

Online since
1998
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History chapters
15
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Community

Palkars, everywhere.

The North America directory and the Palkar Helpline.

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Archive

Where it all began.

The guestbook and the first Palkar homepages, 1998 onwards.

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Our language. Our histories. A shared future.

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