Sons of Soil and Sindhi Language

Jolie · January 13, 2015, 5:15pm

Re: Sons of Soil and Sindhi Language

Bring me my statement about Quaid e Azam and Sindhi. I did talked about his going to visit Dhaka university and declaring Urdu as only official language, which was not taken in good spirit by Bengalis. I did tell you that one might disagree with that but like many historians I found it a wrong decision as it created sense of being disowned in Bengali community. Talk about twisting words?

For your kind information, if Sindhis are racist than all communities / ethnicties are responsible for it. Give me a justification for banning their language for use as medium of instruction in their own province just after three years of independence. Ignoring these things (which got proper documentary backing) makes you sound more racist than us Sindhis.

You know what your problem is. You think that you got all right to insult others and their language. Did you read your comment that by sticking to use mother tongue in schools, Sindhis have been denied right to good education in Urdu and English. For your information, you might got such complexes for your mother tongue, but we Sindhis don’t have such complexes to disown and discredit our Mother tongue.

PPP did contributed in passing language bill in 1972, but that was a reaction and public demand specially what Sindhi faced during One-Unit. The steps like denial of voter lists in Sindhi, ban on Sindhi to be used as medium of instruction after class six by Ayub Khan, all lead to this. You need to check your maths that Sindhi ruled Sindh for 40 years (and your recent phrase for God know how many years). Sindh gave Pakistan its capital, but first cabinet of Pakistan had no Sindhi. Why? PPP’s government came in Pakistan after 25 years of Pakistan’s independence. Who ruled the country and sowed seeds of racism in between?

Bhutto just ruled the country for 6-7 years and then came 11 years of whom? The biggest culprit of Pakistani history and he was not Sindhi, if you know and accept it. What could you expect from Benazir Bhutto’s weak governments to do for Sindhi? Everyone knows what was the attitude of Pervez Musharraf with Sindhis. Zardari who came with ‘Pakistan khappay’ slogan had no interest in promoting Sindhi. His minister Maulka Bux Chandio used same language as you have been using in these threads 'we got bigger issue to settle, as if settling language issue is an hindrance to solving other problems. naach na jaane aangan teRha.

If Sindhi has flourished and have presence in educational institution of Sindh, then ruling parties has little role as compared to masses, writers, intellectuals, students, who protested every move against their language. This gave them newspapers and TV channels in their own langauge who talk about their issues, when national media has a general tendency to avoid covering their problems. Covering Thar’s issue is an excpetion. Otherwise, the story is known to everyone.

Oh please. Just because I don’t wear my ethnic pride on my sleeves or cry rivers about my Mother Tongue and flaunt any victim complex doesn’t mean I have any inferior complex about my mother tongue. If you get any cheap thrills by rubbing in any stupid stereotype about Punjabis and their language, then go ahead. Go ahead and judge my love for my mother tongue by handful of posts I make on your forum. Give me a rating. I want to know where my love for Punjabi stands. Likes of you will be the first one to cry the day Punjabi nationalism really kicks off. But as they often say, if I’m indeed a real Punjabi then it is beneath me to feel like a lousy victim. I’ll leave this job for others. Try something else.

I do applaud you for going around in circles and still not answering the real question that why PPP and other nationalists failed to grant to Sindhi the official language status if it was that big of a heartache for the locals? Don’t shoot the typical PPP response where the clock is forever stuck in 70s.

Don’t you dare pull the pathetic racist card! So typical of Sindhis (be it Urdu speakers and PPP walas) to pull the racist card when asked to explain the violent racism in that province. The only and the best answer they seem to give is to call the person a racist for questioning their xenophobia. If you really want to take things down that route, then I can brand you as a bigger xenophobe and racist. It is child’s play to throw these terms around on internet. Whether you like it or it, Pakistan was the new country and it needed a binding medium to unite the country and find a new collective identity and the medium was provided in the only national lingua franca. There was a justification to aggressively introduce Urdu in Pakistani schools, whether you agree with it or not is a totally different issue.

Hamid Mir once said that 90% of Balochistan is a no go area for journalists and especially those who belong to ‘outside’ race hence very less coverage of Baloch issues, I wonder how much of that is also similar for interior Sindh. I mean Pakistan’s media is largely based in Karachi, why don’t local Karachi reporters go deep in Sindh to report their ‘struggles’?