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بزمِ صوفياءِ سنڏ

‘BAZME-E SOFIA-E SINDH’ Glimpses of Cultural, Politico-History of Sindh

Abstract

This paper contains one part of Socio-political life of G. M. Syed, who was leading politician cum icon of history of Sindhi Culture and Politics. G. M .Syed desired that Politics in Sindh should flourish and democracy should be implemented in real sense. But the politics in Sindh after formation of Pakistan was polluted due the external interference from migrated and uniformed Aristocracy. Reality was shadowed, values perverted, democratic procedures were replaced by vested interested. Syed was a realist, honest, peace loving and born to speak truth. Thus he has to land in a room behind the bars, with no fault of him, the first term of seven and a half years unlawful imprisonment ended in 1968. G. M. Syed visualized that the tribe of power hungry, power lords, land lords and pseudo-intellectuals were sans love, sans courage and sansGheart. The Second Group of bearded clerks were those men, whose head was filled with straws. The Common folk is simple with no education and vision. Thus those were treated as empty-headed animals by those vested interested power lords. Keeping in view, the above conditions G. M. Syed decided to use his talents in collaboration with some of his progressive compatriots and go to people and talking the side of Culture and folk-wisdom, join with masses and tell those, about people, about, truth, brotherhood, love, peace and about Sindhi Culture and the values emanating from that. Thus he has decided to form a Cultural body viz: ‘Bazm-e-Sofia-eSindh’, through the masses be given learning and enlightenment. His cothinkers were: Pir Hisamuddin Rashdi, Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo, Muhammad Usman Deeplae, Prof. Ghulam Mustafa Shah, Rashid Bhatti, Tanweer Abbasi, Yar Muhammad Shah and the Sajadah Nasheen Pirs of all those Shrines where melas (fairs) were regularly arranged and masses were gathered on folksongs, musical songs and folk songs were arranged and people used to enjoy. Syed Sahib, took one step ahead to arrange, Literary Seminars for giving some knowledge of Culture and learning about the sacrifices given by those persons who has scarified their live for the sake of Truth, Peace and Unity among the masses. Fairs were held at Shrines of ‘Shah Latif’, ‘Sachal Sarmast’ and ‘Shah Inayat’…etc

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