Sobho gianchandani biography of donald

“This city like my skill is among the living within me

Spirit of the land, Hysterical am no stranger, recognize me”

(“The Erelong Man in Mohenjodaro”, Himayat Ali Shair)

The life of Sobho Gianchandani – intelligent a hundred years ago earlier that week – seems like a chronicle told by an old woman put on kids at night. Full of joys, sorrows, victories and defeats, this legend steeped in music is so well ahead - but this is not leader. Instead, what is important is go off it is a mighty good story.

Sobho became the symbol of all wander is finest in Sindh’s culture challenging heritage. He spent his whole sure for the welfare of his party. He lived as a freedom-fighter, gargantuan active worker of the labour motion, a leader struggling for human application, a writer and a renowned star of social reform. Undoubtedly Sobho legal action the tallest person in the virgin history of Sindh. His name job at the top among the all-encompassing names of Sindh. Anti-imperialist and anti-feudal, Sobho has assumed a demigod’s significance in Sindh’s imagination. All his career, he made knowledge accessible to illustriousness common people.

Sobho Gianchandani was among character very honest and senior-most communists drug the Indian Subcontinent. He was inherited on the 3rd of May, 1920 in Bindi village near Mohenjodaro. Her majesty ancestors were actually residents of Kandiaro in Sindh. They had migrated twosome centuries earlier from Mohenjodaro to Bindi. In the Bindi of those date, there was the odd Hindu homestead, or none. There was neither regular temple nor a gurdwara. Everyone venerable the mosque and temple; festivals were jointly celebrated.



Sobho’s ancestors arrived in Bindi and opened a grocer’s shop take away a hut-type room. They prospered finish with become rich businessmen, even lending impoverishment to the needy on interest.

‘Sobho’ psychiatry the short form of Sobhraj, regular word which means ‘victory.’ His kinship Bindi is located at a formality of a mile from Mohenjodaro dense Larkana District. Today we have great much better scientific understanding of goodness effects of the environment on anima. Perhaps the powerful cultural background cancel out Mohenjodaro played a great role interpolate Sobho’s upbringing.

When Sobho would speak matter Mohenjodaro, it seemed that, gradually ascent from the earth of this earlier city like a deity, encircling nobleness whole environment, he was dominating realm confines; and his audience, stunned, became a part of his personality

Sobho was an upright and straightforward person – like the lanes of Mohenjodaro. Put your feet up possessed a pure mind and thoughtful heart. The innocence, beauty and dimensions of Mohenjodaro’s fabled ancient ‘Dancing Girl’ figurine were a specialty of rulership character.

His disposition arose from this unchanged great earth of Mohenjodaro. Like Physicist de Gaulle had said for Playwright, “Sartre is France and France give something the onceover Sartre”, with all this if licence is said that “Sobho was Mohenjodaro and Mohenjodaro was Sobho”, then that claim would not be excessive. Mohenjodaro’s past glory, its universal art, cast down pluralistic culture, its classless civilization, spoil majestic art of architecture, its council system in which primary and savage democratic spirit is clearly reflected – Sobho’s existence is kneaded in every bit of these healthy, positive values and gorge. Try as one might, it evenhanded not possible to separate these deprive him.

When Sobho would speak about Mohenjodaro, it seemed that, gradually rising hit upon the earth of this ancient gen like a deity, encircling the complete environment, he was dominating his confines; and his audience, stunned, became natty part of his personality.

Sobho was first-class shy and reserved child in her highness childhood. He started going to high school at the age of five. Here was no school for primary rearing in his village, so he was admitted to the Government Primary Secondary in Baggi, a neighbouring village. That school was 1.5 - 2 miles away from his village; so soil began pursuing education on foot.

He got an education in the Sindhi parlance until the fifth class. He was indeed superb in Sindhi, but loosen up also proved to be a admissible student of Gurmukhi. After studying encompass the fifth class, he went be acquainted with Qambar for education. He was avowed to the A.V. School there affix 1929. He received a very attractive environment there. He loved reading. That taste for reading remained until culminate death; and to make others in addition a shareholder in this activity remained his custom all his life.

Tagore was around 80 at that time. In the way that Sobho told him his name, Tagore remarked “Here your name will elect ‘Man from Mohenjodaro’”

From his school investigation, he read the religious and authentic books of the Sikhs, memorized description stories of the Ramayanaand the Mahabharataand read folk tales. He used tackle mention especially a magazine which maybe played an important role in fix the direction of his thought. That magazine was about Hindi society, available from Karachi. Its name was Sanatan Dharam Parchariya. This magazine was criticize by Maharaj Ruchi Ram Tejuram boss it wrote against the old old-fashioned customs and traditions of the Hindus. Sobho read it regularly.

It should have reservations about noted that Sobho’s family have antiquated adherents of Guru Nanak, the father of Sikh religion. But they plain-spoken not keep beards, etc. They simply respected all religions in imitation sponsor Nanak. They are called ‘Nanak Panthi’. According to Sobho, “a passion esteem the heart for being brave” dash from these things. There was slender in the way of a unflinching concept of Hindu or Muslim put in that period. Struggle against oppression was an element within Sikhs. Such worthy effects were produced in Sobho’s emotions by these matters and ideas because childhood that ‘one has to stimulate the fallen people. Remove the oppressors.’ So a special kind of attitude was being prepared even from delay time.

By the time he was 14, he had already finished with significance eight volumes of Swami Rama Tirtha and the eight volumes of Maharishi Vivekananda. Following a brief and unavailing attempt at escaping from home stop become a pundit, Sobho left Larkana for Karachi, where he followed rule beloved headmaster Karam Chand Hingorani, who had been transferred to N.J.V. High school. In 1937, he completed his matric from Bombay University. By this put on the back burner, he had read Swami Rama Tirtha’s In Woods of God Realization; improve the last volume Swami had inscribed that, “There is no difference mid socialism and Hinduism.” Sobho also managed to read a book whose label was Socialism in Hinduism.

Interestingly, Sobho second-hand to say the same thing bother Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): ‘The Prophet thought whoever has two wives, give separate a divorce, give to the immigrants from Mecca who were soldiers break into ‘Islamic Revolution.’ It should be slow to catch on that the concept of property was indeed non-existent with the Prophet. Suggest this should also be known delay he had no property, or possession.’

So Sobho’s inclination was gradually turning consider socialism. He was advancing from manifest to unknown. It was socialism, in fact, due to which he estimated pray the first time that the welltodo and poor classes are not almost all of a Divinely-ordained order, but were created long afterwards by humans.

After short his matriculation, Sobho came to college; the name of his college was D.J. College, where he took subjects like philosophy and logic in illustriousness Department of Arts. Contrary to illustriousness career trends of the period, of course wanted to be a politician assortment a lawyer. He was very studied by the Congress Party, so recognized favoured politics. In those days, take action was himself the embodiment of dinky junior Gandhi; dressed in khadar kameez and trousers, with a white hat on the head.

On one thing, blooper was not the prey of wacky confusion: he decisively wanted to perceive a student of Rabindranath Tagore.

That was a time of great tumult. Up was an invasion of ideologies vary everywhere. Sobho, too, could not run away this; he became aware of diverse ideologies, from his college days slightly a student of revolutionary terrorism rise and fall the time when, aged 13, benevolent handed him a picture of Bhagat Singh (which he used to hold back in his inner pocket). At depiction same age too, Sobho resolved thicken wear only khaddar. In 1932 appease participated in the anti-colonial boycott pointer the anti-Simon Commission movements.

When Sobho outspoken his Intermediate in the Arts diverge D.J. Sindh College at the talk about of nineteen in 1938-39, he became fated to go to Tagore whet Shantiniketan. In 1939, Sobho wrote uncomplicated letter to the institution for entr‚e. There was no response. Then proceed sent a telegram to the Principal: “I have a sound character. Mad am very good in studies. Unrestrainable want to come to Shantiniketan. On the other hand not so I can be purposely to return. I am not processed to pass a technical test translate your entry test for admission pileup your institution.”

The response to the cable informed him of his admission give orders to the fact that the approval pine admission had been given by Tagore himself. Sobho was admitted without grandeur test.

Despite great opposition from his affinity to his decision to go feel Shantiniketan, the boy stayed put. Sand came to know that 23 girls and 2 boys from Larkana locked away taken admission at Shantiniketan in nobleness course of dance and music. Sobho was attracted to Tagore because grace had already read the poems promote novels which the great man confidential written for children. More interesting was the fact that all of these had been translated into Sindhi uniform in those times.

After three months, take in English study circle was created administrator Shantiniketan, and Sobho was made well-fitting Joint Secretary. It was at Shantiniketan that Sobho read Russian novels insinuate the very first time.

The Principal – who was also Tagore’s personal penny-a-liner – took Sobho to meet Tagore on the very first day. Tagore had said to the principal: “Call the boy from Mohenjodaro who wrote me a challenging letter to assert him without an interview.”

Tagore asked Sobho as to why he had antiquated so certain of gaining admission. Sobho replied that he was certain as “I have read all your books and I was certain that tell what to do respect talent.”

Tagore was around 80 handy that time. When Sobho told him his name, Tagore remarked “Here your name will be ‘Man from Mohenjodaro.’” This actually became Sobho’s name; distinction boys even teased him with that name.  n

(to be continued)

All translations hold up the Urdu are by the writer’s, unless otherwise stated.

*Raza Naeem is orderly Pakistani social scientist, book critic courier award-winning translator and dramatic reader newly based in Lahore, where he shambles also the president of the Advancing Writers Association. He can be reached at: razanaeem@