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From SindhiExodus.NetBy Sapna Ramnani - http://www.sindhiexodus.net/sindhi1.htmlBy Deepak Mirchandani - http://www.sindhiexodus.net/dedic_dmirchandani.htmBy Manzoor Chandio - http://www.sindhiexodus.net/desireneverfulfilled.htmVery touching... I was going through the experiences penned by people in the three links above, and I was particularly interested in the account of Manzoor Chandio. It raises a very natural question, that even I have wondered about. Does anyone know of any instance where there was indeed a case of retaliation, by means of force or otherwise by any section of Sindhis during Partition and the ensuing exodus? If not, I'd like to know what that inherent quality is that makes you adopt non-violence no matter what? Almost every other group of people have been guilty of it sometime or another.Thanks,Abhishek
Just if you are wondering what SPF stands for ... :-)Looking for help in the generation of following resources:1) SPF blog2) SPF website (using a popular CMS such as Jhoomla)3) Powerpoint presentation introducing SPF4) A short audio-visual presentation (this may be done after we have some real interviews done)Contact me, if u can ... dinipc@gmail.comRgds.
Blog Bhavesh has gracefully accepted to work on this...
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Dada Jhamatmal Wadhwani had blessed the Sindhi-Partition Foundation project in January 2006. It is a great loss for us....***************Jhamatmalji Wadhwani is no moreBy Vijaykumar Tejwani He was neither born great nor greatness was thrust upon him. He achieved heights of greatness by his hard work, far reaching foresight, innate qualities of leadership and uncanny knack of getting work done, and his clear and concise decisions. He joined the RSS way back in 1939 in Karachi, when the great scholar Shri Chandrashekhar Bhishikar was in charge of Karachi RSS. Shri Bhishikar was personally deputed by Dr. Hedgewarji, the founder and first Sarsanghachalak of RSS. After doing Matriculation and 2 years of course of Intermediate, Shri Jhamatmalji got Law Degree. Shri Jhamatmalji soon got the post of Income Tax Officer. In those days Income Tax Officers were very few and could be counted on finger tips. Finding himself strangled by Central Government Conduct Rules, due to which he could not take very active part in RSS, he threw away his influential and cushy job and returned to Hyderabad Sindh with a view to devote his energy to the RSS. For about forty five years, he was President of Vivekanand Education Society, which was started with 256 students in 1962 in a dilapidated building, which now has more than 16000 students, many colleges, schools and technical institutes. He also revived the defunct Sindh Yuvak Sabha and Vishwa Sindhu Sabha and named it as Bharatiya Sindhu Sabha, which has been rendering yeoman service all over the country since 1979. Shri Jhamatmalji took part in almost all the Satyagrahas launched by the RSS and its allied organisations. He was put behind bars many a time for the same. He remained practically active till his demise on April 17, 2007, at the age of 86 years. He remained active during his ripe advanced age. May his near and dear ones and well wishers get sufficient solace to bear such a great loss. May his soul remain in eternal peace. OM Shanti.
Dear Sapna,Namaste. My name is Dinesh Chanchalani and I live in Atlanta, USA. I was browsing on the internet looking to read experiences of Sindhis that underwent partition in 1947 and stumbled upon your website. Let me, at the outset, commend you on the effort that you took to create the website. More so, the fact that you thought it important to venture into this kind of an effort is itself commendable - not to say rare. Being a Sindhi myself, I have always been fascinated with the experiences of partition and the resilience of the Sindhi people that went through the experience. I have spent countless hours listening to the wonderful tales and anecdotes of all the travails and the tribulations that our grandparents/parents went through. It is inspiring to be how the commonest of Sindhi has, instead of playing the victim, decided to take life in the most positive spirit and come out triumphs. It is almost 60 years since the partition and the generation that saw/experienced partition (to possess the nostalgia) is slowly phasing out. It will perhaps be not more than 10 years that we lose all the information we have (through personal lives) of the partition. Our historians have failed to do justice to the country by ignoring this valuable treasure - my research yielded no serious work on the individual experiences of partition. History will repeat for those who forget it. However, keeping with the true Sindhi spirit, myself and a few close friends/cousins decided to do our bit. We founded the "Sindhi Partition Foundation" - perhaps a paper-tiger at present but not for long. Would you be interested in joining hands with us? We have a group on Orkut.com - there is some literature that explains what we intend to do. Hope we can have you onboard. Rgds,Dinesh Chanchalani.
An excellent treatise on the story of Sindh."The Sindh Story" by K.R.Malkani of the Bharatiya Sindhu Sabha.http://www.freesindh.org/sindhstory
