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 mirror this reality of a young man torn under the burden of duty towards elderly dependent parents and demands and aspirations of his personal family.

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 all this was going on, the constitution of India was promulgated in 1952.

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 longer confined to home and hearth.

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 is that while the rest of India celebrates the Independence Day on the 15th August every year, in the collective psyche of Sindhi community in India, this day is remembered as a day of partition.

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. Thus the “Freedom “remains elusive.

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 to think about the nature of the present script. Before the present Persio -Arabic script was adopted there were more than 13 scripts prevalent for writing Sindhi It was at the time when language was committed to writing in a manuscript form and literacy was a personal privilege and printing technology and mass education had not come into vogue.

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 such a short period. Soldiers at Shikarpur, Sukkar and Hyderabad rose in revolt. On 14th September 1857 21 st Regiment of Native infantry rose in rovolt at Karachi .

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 relationship of child with mother tongue. Child depends on his mother for the very basic physical survival for nourishment.

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. Before the advent of the British rule the court language was Persian and Sindhi language became official language of Sind only after the British rule.

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 cry or body language but for cohesive communication it is necessary to have words and coherent sequence of words.