Paying Tribute: March 18 dedicated to Comrade Sobho

KARACHI:

Sindhi Adabi Sangat, an organisation of writers, decided to dedicate today to veteran politician, intellectual and a writer of Sindh, Comrade Sobho Gianchandani.

Celebrations will be held in all 120 district and tehsil headquarters of the sangat to pay tribute to Comrade Sobho who is hospitalised in Karachi. Special prayers will also be offered for his health.

While talking to The Express Tribune Mushtaque Phul, Sangat’s general secretary, said that all poets and writers of the province will gather in their areas to present their papers on his life to pay tribute to him. “It is very unfortunate that we always remember our legends after their death,” said Phul.

Ayaz Jani, a renowned Sindhi poet, said that some branches of the sangat have also made arrangements to celebrate Gianchandani’s birthday which is on May 3. “A few of our friends in the Gulshan-e-Hadeed branch have dedicated their poetry to him and it will be recited today at the event.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 18^th, 2012.