Dear Bloach Sahab

Thanks for sparing some time to read and reply to my wishes. As learnt from my elders, My Grandfather-Late Jeevan Das Sachdeva, was the resident of 'Sultankhel' in mianwali district. His 3 step brothers Chharkanda lal Sachdeva, Pyare lal Sachdeva and one other(all dead now) were residing in kamar mushani before migrating to India. All our extended family is living in National Capital Region-Delhi. Only few of even 2nd generation are alive now. We are the third generation, which are somehow are in touch with our language,culture and beleifs. Present generation is unaware as well as uninterested in knowing our past because of language/religious/political barriers. Basically they don't know their past, its antiquity, its achievements in human history and Heroes to relate to and to feel proud about them self. Which is very necessary for continuity of our shared culture. I, on my individual efforts, am trying to know my past so as to pass on to my next generation, which I feel they should know before being submerged in the mainstream culture. I don't have clues to propagate my views, though I find your effort, as made through 'wasaib.com,' very effective.

Baki wat likhesan

jawab zaroor divaye

twada

Rakesh Sachdeva

Dear Sachdeva,

It is quite unfortunate that Seraikis who migrated from areas now constituting Pakistan could not keep their culture and language alive in India . Now there are quite a few people in India who can speak flawless Seraiki , there are some magzines in circulation as well .

I am really not sure who you can impart knowledge to your young generations about teh geenrations which have joined majority . But Seraikis who migrated from Dera did some basic work in this regard , master Allawadi wrote a book about Dera in 1953 at that time book was published in Urdu recently it has been translated in English . I am not sure if some one from Mianwali wrote their memiors .

One best way of keep Seraiki language alive in India is to have a Seraiki website in Devanagri script , again I am not sure how this objective can be achieved . I know their are lot of Seraikis in Indai who want to know about their elder generations and to visit towns and vilalges on their ancestors , but due to bad blood between both countries they can not do it. I have gazetteer of Mianwali , I will try to make a digital copy of it and upload it in Library section.

I would suggest you to stay in touch with us and keep suggestinh us about they ways in which we could help you in your efforts to keep Seraiki culture and language alive in India.


Best Regards

Farooq

Meku nahi pata ke rakesh sachdeva ji delhi vech kitha rahande payen.India vech Mianwali biradri naa di hek society he jinha di branches poore hindustan vech hen.Ummed he ke sachdeva ji ku ve zaroor pata hosi.delhi,gurgaon,haridwar,ambala.panipat,ballabgarh,hodel etc..vech branches hen.list bahu lambi he.E yo society har mahine hek meeting apne apne shahar vech karendi he te hoonda lekha jokha har branch di tafseel naal miyawali gazzete vech hindi urdu duen language vech chapda rahande.Hek du varke seraiki vech ve chapden kedai kui gazal,tarana,drohe ve chapde rahanden.Har saal hek salana jalsa ve thinde.
Haridwar vech hek dharmshala(sarai/inn)ve complete thi gayi he.Uththa ve taim taim te function thinde rahanden.
Mianwali memories di jiththa tak galh he hek kitab
Wichhada Watan du hazar du 2002 vech Harish Chander Nakra ji ne likhi hai.hoonda link ve main paste karenda paya.
http://www5.domaindlx.com/mianwalionline/Wichhada-Watan.shtml

Excerpts from the Book

"Wichhada watan tey umran langhian,

bhaven wat assan miley nan

Mianwali, a dikhan jo kedhi galone

hun tak tenoon bhuley nan"

Translation

"( Mianwali , my parted homeland!

Parted we were ages ago;

Never, perhaps, to meet again.

Yet, why do I miss thee so? )".

seraiki website devnagri script aali salah dadh hi changi he.

twada
sanjay pahuja

Rakesh Sachdeva on the comments of Sanjay Pahuja:

First of all I wish to say that in India our community has been divided along hindu-sikh, arora-khatri and now along the city centric identity, which as a person knowing the deep entrenched roots of our community in the Sindhu valley, do not fascinates me. Here in India there are groupings along cities of residence of the community such as Mianwali, Bannuwal, derewal, Kohati etc. As I have found out in www.wikipedia.org under the 'Arora' search, our community is grouped under 'Arora' head. This categorisation suits me as I have relatives from as far as Rawalpindi to Sukker. Therefore I cannot identify myself just as 'Mianwali'. Further in the past our land has been described as'Arachosia' and further back in history,we were known as 'Sindhu & Sauvir' people. This far I have known with my own efforts.
Therefore the categorisation done by wasaib along linguistic lines irrespective of the religion also fascinates me. I beleive in unification as is the effort of wasaib. Let the politicians divide the people along Religion/Linguistic/ethnic/Caste lines. Our aim should be unification.