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SINDHIS TODAY
THE NEW AVATAR!
There is a famous poem of Iqbal which creates a ‘mirror’ in which we Sindhis may recognize ourselves.
Says Iqbal :
Khudi Ko Kar Buland Itna, Ay Bandey,
Ki KHUDA Bandey Se Khud Poochhe
Batha Teri Raza Kya Hai?
Sindhis today have re-invented themselves - after the mass-scale uprooting and financial losses of Partition in 1947. In that historic year, the composite Hindu-Muslim world of Sindh disappeared from the map of history, perhaps forever. During the period 1947-50 a whole way of life, culture, a social world came to an end in Sukkur, Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana. Yes, Sindh the place still physically exists, but it is now a very different social world.
The point of recalling the past is to appreciate the road we Sindhis have travelled. On the ruins of Old Sindh has arisen a New Sindh, which truly has a Global presence today.
And this New Sindh is carried by each one of us in our identity, especially in our never-say-die Entrepreneurial Spirit. It is that spirit which Iqbal calls khudi in the poem above, it is the spirit of creating opportunities where only problems existed.
More than anyone else, the Sindhi businessman embodies that adventurous spirit, that inner strength which has made todays’ Sindhi a true Citizen of the World.
Yes, we can look into Iqbal’s poetic mirror, thanks to the landmark achievements of Sindhi merchants, Builders, Industrialists, and smile.
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