Need for All India Sindhi Consolidating Centre
All India Sindhi Consolidating Centre… Why is it Necessary ?
Dear Sindhi Shedaii,
Firstly, we Sindhis have neither land, nor Province, nor the government who could take care of our community in the various fields covering all the aspects and aspirations of various dimensions so that cohesion of community may be retained.
Secondly, we sindhis who are scattered, are now inhabited permanently in more than 3000 villages, towns and cities of our Country. As a result we have become victims of the influences and effects of various provincial languages, habits and to some extent even traditions. Sometimes, we have observed that habits so identical with Sindhi souls have been changed; such as food, clothing and accent of speech etc. Hence, we are apprehensive of losing our identity of Sindhyat.
Thirdly, not only these, but also living separately under various environments since last 50 years. Though we have earned the wealth and acquired some social influence at various such places, but we have become individualists and have lost community sense. Thus, the community ethos, social bindings, customs and conventions, so dear and connected with our ancient civilization have faded. We can certainly spell out in other terms that our social and community fabric has weakened. Once the fabric of community is weakened, community sense is at its first casualty. Therefore, the future of the community in retaining its identity with its language, art and civilization, rather the culture will be the matter of uncertainty.
Fourthly, there is a remote possibility that neither our Sindhi community will be recognized by the government as a State without land, as is being demanded irrationally by some quarters of the community, nor we can have a land to be called ‘Miniature Sindh’ where we could flourish and cherish our language, art and culture.
Fears and apprehensions:
These aforesaid are the facts and it could be the Data or we can call them the premises on which we have to find out the solution so as to consolidate our community, which is spread throughout the country. There are hundreds of instances where 5 to 50 families of Sindhis are living far away from the mainstream of our Sindhi population belt particularly in the North-East provinces such as Assam, Orissa and Pondicherry, etc. They do not fall within the mainstream of Sindhyat. With the passage of time, next two to three decades, their identity will be vanished and they would be assimilated in the local community.
The fabric of our community, we may say candidly, is weakened. Infact, the fabric of community is woven when the inhabitants of common land and with geographical boundaries live together for centuries, sharing the properties of art & culture, bearing the weals and woes during these centuries. This is compounded and called ethos of community. The survival of every community positively depends upon preserving these ethos. Therefore, if this trend of fadeness of ethos is not controlled or salvaged, our community will loose its identity within the next 20-30 years.
Before we place our view on Sindhi Consolidating Centre, that is our second conception, we would like to elaborate our initial conception of this gigantic movement on which we have been working since last 6 years.
Every Sindhi soul, either educationist, philosopher, guide, saint or politician, severely or individually are of the firm opinion that unless the Sindhi language is revived, at least as an speaking language among Sindhis which is a symbol of our identity, the extinction of Sindhi Community with the passage of time is certain. There are various such examples in the history which can substantiate this fact.
Thus, after various symposiums, seminars, etc. we have arrived at the decision that unless all layers of Sindhi Community are motivated properly, perpetually and logically, the survival of our Sindhi Language, art and culture, which have lost under the forces circumstances in the exercise of toiling and moiling in establishing ourselves economically strong, will be in danger.
Therefore not only we have to save our language, art and culture, but its intrinsic values, essentialities, social obligations Aasthas, sympathies too; so as to reimbibe Oneness. Hence there is a need of establishing “All India Sindhi Consolidating Centre”
Prem Tolani (President) & Dinesh G. Tahiliani (Secretary)
30 June 2007