Presence of Sindhi blogs in Blogsphere?
Posted on November 5, 2007 | 64 views
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Sindhi is regional language of Pakistan along with Punjabi, Pashto and Balochi side by side. Apart from this, several other languages are also being spoken in Pakistan e.g. Siraiki, Hindko etc. Urdu claims the status of National language. Since blogging, even in English, is not that common in Pakistan; it was hardly expected to find blogs in Sindhi. The Pakistani blog aggregator blogger.pk has no Sindhi blog listed. Having this idea in my mind, I started search for Sindhi blogs in Cyberspace. My first step in this regard was to run a search in some search engine. Since Google stays my first priority regarding web searches so I knocked at the Google’s door and results were not disappointing.
Google took 0.24 seconds and fetched 1, 940, 000. I was really impressed with the number of search results and got encouraged to analyze it in a little bit detail. The result that topped the list was a tag ‘Sindhi’ from wordpress. Apart from this tag, other independent blogs got listed too. I randomly tried to hit few links and found wonderful links. The first thing felt obliged to follow was Sindhi tag from wordpress. In that tag, I found blog of Agha Gul on top.
From Agha Gul’s blog, I gather that he is based in US and teaches in some university. In his blog he writes about many diverse topics ranging from History to education. Animals, Autobiographical, human rights, Education and folklore were few noteworthy categories under which he has posted his writings. In Agha Gul’s blogroll, I came across links to other Sindhi blogs too and they were 12 in number.
Here, I would like to mention a very interesting observation. While following the links to Sindhi blogs, I came to know that Sindhi bloggers are using three scripts, instead of two traditional scripts (Arabic and Devanagari) and that third script is a recent development, the Roman Script. Though many Sindhi Scholars do not accept the Roman script but the Sindhi youth in India seems adopting it and bringing it in vogue (it’s a long discussion and requires a separate post).
In Arabic Script, apart from Agha Gul’s blog, Ayaz Rind’s blog Sindhi stands out prominent and he appear updating the blog relatively frequently. His last post is dated Sept 30, 2007. Ayaz has categorized his post in poetry and prose. He appears a fiction writer. Another Sindhi blogger who appears actively blogging is Fayaz Soomro. His blog is named Indus Asia Sindhi Blog. Fayaz writes about contemporary political and social issue and represent the Sindhi mind set.
Now about blogs in Devanagari and Roman script, since Devanagari is no more taught in Sindh Pakistan so, almost all the bloggers who write in Devanagari script are from India. The Indian Sindhis appear blogging in mixed text with both scripts side by side. One such example is Deepak Bharatdeep’s blog.
After going through a substantial number of Sindhi blogs in all the three scripts (sorry can’t read Devanagari), one can realize that it’s a wrong impression that there are very few Sindhi blogs in Cyberspace. In fact, this scribe found a good number of Sindhi blogs and can claim that Sindhi blogs are growing but the problem starts when Sindhi bloggers, after trying for few days, quit blogging in Sindhi or stop updating.
In order to claim their presence in blogsphere and make themselves heard, Sindhi blogging needs serious blogger with motivation to carry this task forward.
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tvhaanji koshish ain khyaal badhiyaa aahe
deepak bahratdeep
@Deepak:
Pyara deepak. Awhan ji meharbani awhan muhnjay blog ta aaya ain khayalan to izhar kayo. Dadhi khushi theen. Awhan ji meharbani awhan blog ta enda raho and pehjan sujhawan sa muhnjay blog kha behtar banain ma sath denda raho.