Culture, Sindhi

Krishna Chander, an eminent Urdu writer paid a glorious tribute in one of his Urdu novel to ‘Sindhi community

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By Katejas, India
The writer can be reached at: rukateja@gmail.com
When the Muslim look-alike Sindhi Hindus writing their language in Arabic script, men with surma-laden eyes and wearing striped pajamas, women wearing loose western Indian attire covering their heads with rao or poti landed penny less on Indian shores,

they were heavily suffering inferior complex.
As survival was the sole aim of these landless refugees, first thing they did was to assimilate themselves with new lands or provices they gave them refuge, in the process, many switched over to Hindi and other local vernacular languages, even the language they spoke at home got corrupted.
The language, the culture, the ethos, thus suffered immensely. With incomparable hardships, the community in the zest of survival kept on struggling, their sibling started selling candy balls in local trains, they
started vending goods carrying on their shoulders, they resorted to every type of work sans ‘begging’. Krishna Chander, an eminent Urdu writers paid a glorious tribute in one of his Urdu novel ‘Sindhi community, which was on
the brinks of the extinction has survived only with their determination and hard work, any other community might habe become a community of beggars, kudos to this community, that they have not produced any Sindhi beggar!’
That is history now. Today, though, inferiority complex has not replaced with superiority complex, it is certainly, replaced with a sense of pride.
Today we are an educated, well settled, well groomed community.
This all due to our SINDHI genes.

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