![]() ![]() To my great disappointment this did not happen. To me it seemed that in a generation the entire educated youth population of the province of Sindh would be bilingual. When the language riots of 1972 were followed by the education policy that required every student to study Sindhi and Urdu, irrespective of his or her mother tongue, I was delighted. Teaching Sindhi free of charge should have been the job of the Sindh government’s department of culture. But there was no place where I could go to learn Sindhi. There are many other languages you can learn in this city. In Karachi, a cosmopolitan city and home to numerous foreign consulates, I could try my hand at French, German and Persian. They had welcomed my parents and me when we migrated to this land of the Sufis. Living in Sindh, I wanted to learn the Sindhi language to enable myself to speak to the people here in their own language. ![]()
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