This as a social and economic background, short stories appeared which had a low paid clerk as a central character. Ishwar Chander’s (1937-1992) short stories...
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Evolution of Indian literature since India’s Independence-SINDHI (Part III)
Here I shall have to revert back to the time of post Independence of India to give a broad perspective of the literary activity .While...
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The total disruption of the society had another significant fall out. In this entire process the position of woman in society changed. She was no...
Read MoreEvolution of Indian literature since India’s Independence-SINDHI (Part I)
Literature in Sindhi language unlike the literary cultures of contemporary other Indian languages moves on quite different trajectories and planes. The obvious reason of this...
Read MoreWhat Freedom means to me
What Freedom means to me? Economic Power and political power are interchangeable. The power of individual conscience is circumscribed by conditioning and ethos of time....
Read MoreOn Change of Script for Sindhi Language
Before we speak of change of Script for the Sindhi language in view of the technological advance in the recent times, it would be necessary...
Read MoreSind and Indian Independence Movement
Sind was the last territory in India to be conquered by British in 1843. Yet 1957 war of independence for its echo in Sind in...
Read MoreMother Tongue Day
Before we come to think of mother tongue it would not be out of place to consider the basic relationship between mother and child and...
Read MorePublishing scenario in Sindhi Language (Historically & Now)
Sind was the last territory to be conquered by British in this subcontinent in 1843 and it was annexed to Bombay Presidency for administrative purpose....
Read MoreInternational Mother Language Day
Language happens to be oldest tradition of humanity. It is not possible to think without words. At instinctive level feelings may be expressed by a...
Read MoreA bird’s eye view- Sindhi Prose
In the context of the migration of Sindhi community in India it is necessary to bear certain facts about the composition of the community. It...
Read MoreImportance of Mother Tongues.
Before we come to think of mother tongue it would not be out of place to consider the basic relationship between mother and child and...
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About the Author
Mohan Gehani is a noted Sindhi scholar, playwright, translator and poet. Born in Karachi, Sindh, on 20 January 1938, he belongs to the select community of Sindhi writers who lived through the Partition of India, one of the early group which struggled to build a movement that held the Sindhi identity together after the loss of Sindh, and campaigned for the Sindhi Language to be accepted as a national language by the Constitution of India.
Gehani, whose first short story appeared in 1955 in Naeen Duniyan when he was just seventeen, subsequently wrote many books, and received many literary awards including the Saeen G M Syed memorial award at the World Sindhi Congress in London in 2005, and the Sahitya Akademi award in 2011. He has also received awards for his contribution to Sindhi literature from the National Council for the Promotion of Sindhi Language (NCPSL, a body of the Government of India) for his book on the History of Sindh; the lifetime achievement award Akhil Bharat Sindhi Boli ain Sahit Sabha; a translation award by Sahitya Akademi in 2016 for his translation of Kapila Vatsayan’s Hindi book Bharat: Natya Shastra; and the Madhya Pradesh Gaurav Award 2016. He was a member of the Sindhi advisory board for Sahitya Akademi from 2007 to 2012.