02-08-2005

Major Book on Sindhi Literature History Launched

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The book running over to 1,500 pages is a study of the history of Sindh in relation to its literature of the present and preceding years. It has been written in Urdu by Syed Mazhar Jameel, and will be translated by the Sindh Adabi Board as well as in Hindi in India by Sahitya Academy. Mazhar Jameel belongs to the progressive writers group but he has written the book without partiality and animosity to any section of authors of Sindhi or Urdu… The pluralism and cosmopolitan character of Sindh comes out vividly…