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2 unusual facts about Sindhi


Sindhi-language media

KTN is considered as the first private channel of Sindhi language.

It became popular so much so English magazine Newsline carried a story on this new experience in Sindhi journalism.


Abdul-Majid Bhurgri

In 2000-2001, Bhurgri developed the first ever Sindhi Unicode font, obtained support for Sindhi on Windows platform and developed needed resources to make use of standard Sindhi possible on Windows OS and made these freely available on internet.

Adal Soomro

He works in the Sindhi literature department of Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur, Sindh.

Adipur

The person credited with the formation of this settlement was Bhai Pratap Dialdas, who requested land from Mahatma Gandhi for the (mostly Sindhi) immigrants from what was, at the time, West Pakistan.

Ahmad Bakhsh Sindhi

In 1944, Sindhi was a gold medalist/top achiever during his Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws studies at prestigious Aligarh Muslim University in the city of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Sindhi had a cardiac arrest in 2000, and was taken to William Beaumont Hospital in Detroit.

Sindhi’s first political achievement was being appointed to the position of Cabinet Minister for the independent state of Bikaner by its Maharaja, Sir Sadul Singh, in 1948.

Ayoob Khoso

Ayub khoso appeared in many Balouchi drama broadcast from Pakistan Television (Quetta Centre), nowadays he is working on Sindhi channels like KTN and Sindh TV.

Battle of Dubba

Later, on March 24, 1843, a coalition of Sindhi Muslims gathered to liberate Sindh from the occupation of the British East India Company they were led by General Hoshu Sheedi, the fierce battle resulted in the ground of Dubbo, where deaths of over 5000 Sindhis and the execution of many took place.

Battle of Halani

The Battle of Halani was fought in 1782 between the Afsharid tribe Talpurs and the Sindhi tribe Kalhora for the control of the Sindh region, in modern-day Pakistan.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Edward Backhouse Eastwick

In 1843 he translated the Persian Kessahi Sanjan, or History of the Arrival of the Parsees in India; and he wrote a Life of Zoroaster, a Sindhi vocabulary, and various papers in the transactions of the Bombay Asiatic Society.

Gandhara

Semitic scripts were not used to write South Asian languages again until the arrival of Islam and subsequent adoption of the Persian-style Arabic alphabet for New Indo-Aryan languages like Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi and Kashmiri.

Ghanaian Indian

The Indo-Aryan peoples and Sindhi, who were the first Indians to arrive in Ghana, initially came as merchants and shopkeepers, and gradually, in the 1950s and 1960s, a few ventures out in the manufacturing industries such as garments, plastics, textiles, insecticides, electronics, pharmaceutical industry, optical goods etc.

Gujarati languages

Vaghri, Aer, and the Koli dialect cluster are sometimes included, but Koli is also classified as Sindhi, and Aer is closest to Koli.

Haqeer Rind

Hazoor Bux Rind (Sindhi: حضور بخش رند (born in Shahpur Chakar), popularly known as Haqeer Rind (Sindhi: حقير رند ), is a Sindhi poet and social worker from Shahpur Chakar, Pakistan .

Hemu Kalani

Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai with a large Sindhi population, has Hemu Kalani Marg named after the famous freedom fighter.

Imdad

Imdad Hussaini (born 1940), prolific Sindhi poet and writer of Pakistan

Jhulelal

Jhulelal (Sindhi/Urdu: جهوللال), (Sanskrit: झूलेलाल) or Dariyalal or Zinda Pir is the Ishta Dev (community God) of Sindhi people.

Karachi language

The language of the city of Karachi is Sindhi.

Kashish Television Network

The channel was founded by Ali Kazi who is the owner of the most popular Sindhi newspaper Daily Kawish.

Khwaja Ghulam Farid

He mastered Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Saraiki, Punjabi, Sindhi, and Braj Bhasha, and also wrote poems in Saraiki, Punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi, Persian, and Braj Bhasha.

Kot Ghulam Muhammad

Babbar in kot ghulam muhammad babbar are a huage communities of sindhi brothry,Bhurgari, Talpur, Khaskheli, Jat, Mahars, Sheedi, Laghari, Halepoto, Chelia, Dall, Ramdan,Meo Rajput and QaimRao Rangar live in taluka as majority tribes.

KTN News

Kawish Television Network, KTN is the first private Sindhi TV channel of Pakistan.

Maya Kodnani

Kodnani is an ethnic Sindhi Hindu, whose family migrated from Pakistan to India during partition.

Mazahua language

Along with Sindhi and Tukang Besi, Mazahua is a rare case of a language with true implosives far isolated from regions where implosives are commonly encountered.

Muhammad Farooq

Farooq used to recite naats in his school, Milad and Naat Programs and was always appreciated by his teachers specially class teacher Miss Ronaq, Sir Javaid Iqbal (Sindhi Teacher) and Muhammad Ashraf Shaad for his melodious and expressive voice.When he was the student of Pakistan Navy School Shafa Karachi he won first time the first prize in an All Karachi Inter Schools Naat Khawani competition held at Pakistan Navy School Karsaz Karachi.

Muhammad Usman Diplai

Later, his Sindhi stories appeared in the Sindhi monthlies such as Taraqqi and Ilm Dunya.

Noor Mohammad Kalhoro

In 1157 AH (1744 AD) Shaykh Shukrullah a Sindhi war-chief sent by Mian Noor Mohammad Kalhoro defeated Hothí the chief of the Kakralah a Hindu tribe which had build the fort of Kanji, the Hindus of that region had a long blood-feud with the Samma tribe (Muslim).

Northwestern India

The region has more than nine languages and sub-languages like Dogri, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Sindhi.

Pakistanis in Sri Lanka

The Memons of Sri Lanka for instance, are an important Muslim minority who claim descent from Sindhi Memon traders that arrived from Sindh to Sri Lanka in the 1870s.

Sachal Sarmast

Sachal's poetical works are sung by local singers in Sindhi and Saraiki - his shrine is in village Daraza, near Ranipur, Khairpur District, Pakistan.

Sadhukadi

Sadhukaḍi Bhasa, or Sant Bhasa (Saints' Language) is a vernacular written genre, popular in medieval North India, based on a mixture of Hindustani (Khariboli), Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Marathi, Rajasthani, etc.

Sant Mat

medieval Sufi poets such as Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, as well as Sindhi poets, are considered to have many similarities with the poet-sants of Sant Mat.

Satna

There are temples of Saibaba, located at Dhawari and Sindhi colony where hundreds of people gather every Thursday for worship.

Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai

According to Sindhi scholars, young historian such as Abul Hassan Thattvi,author of the Muqadamah as-Salawat, sought advice from the elderly Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai during compilation of his celebrated work and frequently traveled to Bhit Shah.

Shazia

Shazia Marri, Sindhi Baloch Pakistani politician and provincial Minister for Information of Sindh

Shazia Khushk

Shazia as Sindhi folk singer; having been an avid fan of folk-songs of Sindh about Marvi and poetry of renowned poet of Sindh Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

Sindhi Adabi Board

The times of the Arghons, the Trakhans and the Mughal Empire (1526 to 1858) gave rise to nationalistic feelings in Sindhi literature.

Sindhi Adabi Sangat

That is how Sindhi Adabi Sangat formed at the central level in 1956 with Ayaz Qadri as its Secretary and its report was published in quarterly Mehran.

Sindhis in India

However, because of a genocide in that Muslim country, a sense of better opportunities in India, and most of all a sudden influx of Muslim refugees from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Central Provinces, Hyderabad State, Rajputana (Rajasthan) and other parts of India, many Sindhi Hindus decided to leave Pakistan.

Sirajul Haq Memon

Later he shifted back to Hyderabad, where he worked with Mohammad Usman Diplai at his printing press and later as an assistant in the Sindhi Adabi Board, where he along with Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo and Ghulam Rabbani Agro translated classical works from English to Sindhi.

Sital K Motwani

He is an active member of the ambitious IndusInd group led by several prominent NRIs and persons of Indian origin to channel capital and business expertise from Sindhi businessmen all over the world into India.

Sufi rock

It is mostly based on the poetry of famous sufi poets like Rumi, Hafez, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Bulleh Shah, Waris Shah and even Kabir and is mostly sung in languages like Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Persian and Turkish.

Valaikaapu

Similar ceremonies are held in other parts of India and in Pakistan, including among Bengali women, Marathi women (who call the ceremony Dohale Jevan डोहाळे जेवण), Punjabi women (who call it Godh-Bharai), Sindhi women, and Marwari women.


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