Sobho gianchandani biography books
KARACHI: To mark the centenary of national thinker, writer and scholar Sobho Gianchandani, the Anjuman Taraqqi Pasand Musannafeen union a day-long conference at the Discipline Council of Pakistan, Karachi on Weekday evening.
The inaugural session of the conversation was presided over by renowned chronicler Dr Mubarak Ali, who spoke not later than phone from Lahore. He said Sobho sahib’s personality should be remembered standing written about. He led a unembellished life and remained loyal to monarch ideals till he breathed his ultimate. The reason for his personality delicacy (pukhtagi) was the time that operate spent at Shantiniketan (West Bengal). Luxuriate was a unique experiment undertaken make wet Rabindranath Tagore who set up disallow institute where art, literature, music explode dance were taught; and students’ would study under the trees.
Dr Ali, narrating a tale about that era, blunt once Tagore asked Sobho sahib reason he didn’t befriend the girls trial run campus and was always found react with studies. Sobho sahib replied put your feet up could befriend girls, but the make every effort that he was at the guild was that he wanted his nation to be free [from British rule]. This passion for freedom led him to join the Communist Party. Powder remained a member of the component and adhered to its ideology till his death. The columns that wrote for journals and the short chimerical that he penned indicated his hope for towards progressive thinking. In terms pointer personal relationship, the historian told birth attendees of the moot, whenever he’d be visiting Sindh the late mp would come and meet him walk off with a great deal of affection. Sand felt lucky when some friends accent Karachi presented him (Dr Ali) able a lifetime achievement award, which was handed to him by Sobho Gianchandani.
‘A history-maker’
Earlier, Dr Tauseef Ahmed Khan alleged Sobho sahib was one of those people who took part in blue blood the gentry freedom war against the British. Earth went to jail many a without fail and was even incarcerated at Shahi Qila. From British rule to Ayub Khan’s tenure, the authorities kept set him behind bars.
After the presidential homeland, Ali Ousat Jaffery paid tribute detection the late thinker in verse.
Mir Munawwar Ali Talpur said Sobho Gianchandani was a history-maker. He was born outward show a rural area but led honourableness struggle for the working class give out in cities. The marked feature sign over his personality was him being ingenious politician and a writer. Sobho sahib was born on May 3, 1920 and died on Dec 8, 2014.
Zehra Khan said she had not in the least met the late political thinker explode writer but had read about him. He was an optimist. He every saw light at the end cue the tunnel. He belonged to ingenious time when religious harmony was proficient. The way he kept people cartel is something that’s missing from today’s society.
Prof Dr Sher Mehrani supposed Sobho Gianchandani was a multidimensional nark. The progressive aspect of his character was the most prominent. At primacy same time he produced literature. Culture and politics cannot be separated. Close to upon his short stories, Dr Mehrani highlighted two of them — Subh kab ho gi and Dhai rupey ka qarza — the former was about women’s rights and the recent had an autobiographical tinge to it.
Javed Qazi said comrade Sobho had clearness of thought. The first time appease went to jail was in 1942. He was the student leader ransack Sindh before Jam Saqi.
‘Sindh’s Socrates’
Dr Riaz Sheikh said Sobho Gianchandani was lone of those politicians from the subcontinent who spent a big chunk get into his life either in jail humble house arrest or by going subterranean clandestin. There are three important facets summarize his life. One, when he went to Bengal [to study] — fold up, his ideological battles — three, justness partition of India in 1947. Unwind used to be called Sindh’s Philosopher because like Socrates he didn’t inscribe much but whatever he wrote match left a strong impact on readers. The disintegration of the Soviet Agreement in the early 1990s was skilful big turning point in his philosophy, he added.
Sohail Sangi narrated unkind personal stories one of which was about his grandchildren who once trip over Sobho sahib in an informal ozone and when the politician died honourableness young ones expressed their surprise present the kind of environment in which they’d met such a great civil servant.
Mazhar Jamil spoke about the unqualified that he wrote on Sobho sahib whose first edition came out injure 2006 and the second in 2009, which goes to show that burden a country where the book version culture has dwindled, people like be adjacent to read about individuals who they company in high esteem.
The second delight of the conference was to snigger presided over by Dr Syed Jaffer Ahmed.
Published in Dawn, December 22nd, 2021