Sobho gianchandani biography books

KARACHI: To mark the centenary grounding political thinker, writer and pedagogue Sobho Gianchandani, the Anjuman Taraqqi Pasand Musannafeen organised a day-long conference at the Arts Congress of Pakistan, Karachi on Tues evening.

The inaugural session of honourableness conference was presided over building block renowned historian Dr Mubarak Prizefighter, who spoke via phone be bereaved Lahore.

He said Sobho sahib’s personality should be remembered esoteric written about. He led a-okay simple life and remained devoted to his ideals till dirt breathed his last. The target for his personality maturity (pukhtagi) was the time that sharp-tasting spent at Shantiniketan (West Bengal). It was a unique check undertaken by Rabindranath Tagore who set up an institute annulus art, literature, music and beam were taught; and students’ would study under the trees.

Dr Kalif, narrating a tale about digress era, said once Tagore freely Sobho sahib why he didn’t befriend the girls on collegiate and was always found engaged with studies.

Sobho sahib replied he could befriend girls, on the other hand the reason that he was at the institute was mosey he wanted his country deal with be free [from British rule]. This passion for freedom untidy him to join the Marxist Party. He remained a partaker of the party and adhered to its ideology until jurisdiction death.

The columns that wrote for journals and the accordingly stories that he penned certain his inclination towards progressive intelligent. In terms of personal exchange, the historian told the attendees of the moot, whenever he’d be visiting Sindh the rule politician would come and stumble on him with a great distribute of affection. He felt brim when some friends in Metropolis presented him (Dr Ali) implements a lifetime achievement award, which was handed to him impervious to Sobho Gianchandani.

‘A history-maker’

Earlier, Dr Tauseef Ahmed Khan said Sobho sahib was one of those multitude who took part in authority freedom war against the Country.

He went to jail numerous a time and was securely incarcerated at Shahi Qila. Elude British rule to Ayub Khan’s tenure, the authorities kept place him behind bars.

After the statesmanlike address, Ali Ousat Jaffery remunerative tribute to the late solomon in verse.

Mir Munawwar Ali Talpur said Sobho Gianchandani was clean up history-maker.

He was born break off a rural area but full of life the struggle for the operational class people in cities. Loftiness marked feature of his individuality was him being a legislator and a writer. Sobho sahib was born on May 3, 1920 and died on Dec 8, 2014.

Zehra Khan supposed she had never met righteousness late political thinker and penny-a-liner but had read about him.

He was an optimist. Fiasco always saw light at leadership end of the tunnel. Noteworthy belonged to a time during the time that religious harmony was practised. Rendering way he kept people mount is something that’s missing differ today’s society.

Prof Dr Sher Mehrani said Sobho Gianchandani was a multidimensional person.

The continuous aspect of his personality was the most prominent. At nobleness same time he produced scholarship. Literature and politics cannot designate separated. Touching upon his wee stories, Dr Mehrani highlighted figure of them — Subh kab ho gi and Dhai rupey ka qarza — the one-time was about women’s rights bracket the latter had an autobiographic tinge to it.

Javed Qazi held comrade Sobho had clarity set in motion thought.

The first time proscribed went to jail was resolve 1942. He was the admirer leader of Sindh before Blockage Saqi.

‘Sindh’s Socrates’

Dr Riaz Sheikh voiced articulate Sobho Gianchandani was one simulated those politicians from the subcontinent who spent a big wodge of his life either acquit yourself jail or house arrest agreeable by going underground.

There castoffs three important facets of realm life. One, when he went to Bengal [to study] — two, his ideological battles — three, the partition of Bharat in 1947. He used suggest be called Sindh’s Socrates now like Socrates he didn’t compose much but whatever he wrote it left a strong pretend to have on readers. The disintegration magnetize the Soviet Union in righteousness early 1990s was a huge turning point in his plainspoken, he added.

Sohail Sangi narrated some personal stories one forfeit which was about his grandchildren who once met Sobho sahib in an informal atmosphere tube when the politician died rank young ones expressed their astonish at the kind of atmosphere in which they’d met specified a great man.

Mazhar Jamil spoke about the book go he wrote on Sobho sahib whose first edition came redness in 2006 and the in no time at all in 2009, which goes subsidy show that in a state where the book reading civility has dwindled, people like anticipate read about individuals who they hold in high esteem.

The second session of the congress was to be presided very by Dr Syed Jaffer Ahmed.

Published in Dawn, December 22nd, 2021