Strokes Of Pen

You must have often noticed in Indian Films that a Sindhi character will be a comical one. They will often be shown to be miser, business minded and selfish. For entertainment, it may be fine. However, the Sindhi community in reality is large-hearted, full of love, appreciation and believes in living like a family. Here, I bring you top 10 reasons why we Sindhis are very awesome friends to be:

Returned from Chaliho Puja at Jhulelal Mandir, Sardarnagar, Ahemdabad, Gujarat, India, a few hours back. The reason you see stress on location is because I am worried. I am worried about the fact that Sindhiyat is losing its hold. Some time ago I was discussing about Chailo with my friend who lives in another state. I was shocked and surprised to know that my friend is not aware about Chaliho at all. I know modernism is good, speaking foreign languages is good but how can one  call themselves modernized if they are not aware of their own roots? While, I took that thought further and spoke to some of my other friends outside and inside India, the vagueness remained same. In fact, some of them even asked me, 'Sindhis mein Chaliho hota bhi hai?' Being born and brought up in typical Sindhi area, where every festival and occasion is celebrated with zeal, this came as a huge shock. Well, I maybe lucky in that department but the amazing thing was that my friends had all knowl...