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Saraiki literature is the literature of the
Saraiki language, which is mostly spoken in central
Pakistan.
The main Saraiki-speaking areas are Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi
Khan, Dera Ismail Khan, Mianwali and Bhakkar. Saraiki is also spoken
widely in the Sindh and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. Before the
formation of Pakistan, Saraiki was written in
Devanagari script by Hindus while Muslims always used Persian-Arabic script.
Since the start of consciousness-raising efforts about common ethnic
language in the 1960s, the number of Saraiki publications has increased.
Most of the writings from the 1960s to the 1980s were political in
nature and are coloured by the ethnopolitical aims of the writers. Even
though the number of publications has increased in the last and present
decade, the Saraiki intellectuals themselves admit that there is not
much readership, except perhaps for the works of some renowned
contemporary poets, especially of the revolutionary poet Shakir
Shujaabadi. Although writings in all the regional languages are
suffering from lack of readership for similar reasons, in the case of
Saraiki there are two additional reasons. Firstly, most of the writers
bring in colloquial phraseology (which varies from one variety to the
other) in their writings and secondly, many writers, in their zeal to
prove the antiquity of Saraiki language and to promote its Indo-Aryan
feature, tend to use more Sanskrit words instead of the more common
Arabic-Persian words in order to distinguish it from Punjabi and Urdu,
thus blocking the understanding of their general readers.
[edit] Poetry
Khawaja Ghulam Farid (1845–1901), his famous collection is
Deewan-e-Farid.
Sultan Bahu and
Sachal Sar Mast (1739–1829) are the most celebrated Sufi poets in Saraiki and their poems, known as
Kafi, are still famous.
- The beloved's intense glances call for blood
- The dark hair wildly flows The Kohl of the eyes is fiercely black
- And slays the lovers with no excuse
- My appearance in ruins, I sit and wait
- While the beloved has settled in Malheer I feel the sting of the cruel dart
- My heart the, abode of pain and grief A life of tears, I have led Farid
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- -one of Khwaja Ghulam Farid's poems (translated)
Shakir Shujabadi (
Kalam-e-Shakir, Khuda Janey, Shakir Diyan Ghazlan, Peelay Patr, Munafqan Tu Khuda Bachaway, Shakir De Dohray are his famous books) is very well recognized modern poet. Following are the major Saraiki poets:
- Bedil Sindhi (Dewan-i-bedil)
- Hamal Leghari (Dewan-i- Hamal)
- Lutf Ali (Saifal Nama)
- Rasheed Khan Qaisrani
- Khurum Bahawalpuri (Khiaban-i-Kurum)
- Safeer Leshari (Vepray)
- Mumtaz Haider Daher (Andharay-de- raat and Kashkool vich samandar)
- Ashoo Lal (Chhero hath nah murli)
- Iqbal Sokri (Kalay Roh, Chitti Baraf)
- Bashir Ghamkhawr
- Mustafa Khadim
- Refat Abbas (Parchhian ute Phul and Sangat Ved)
- Nasrullah Khan Nasir (Ajrak and Aoey Hoey)
- Jahngeer Mkhlis
- Qais Faridi (Nemro)
- Aman-ullah Arshad
- Naseer Sarmad (Sojhla)
- Saeed Akhtar Sial
- Bakht Fakir of Ahmad pur Lamma
- Ahamad Khan Tariq
- Hazrat Pir Mitha
- Ashaq Buzdar
- Haji Qadir Gurmani
[edit] Novelists
Ismail Ahmedani
is probably the most celebrated novelist and fiction writer in modern
Saraiki literature. Ahmedani has done much to promote the Saraiki
language as a language for modern fiction writing. He was awarded Khwaja
Ghulam Farid award by the government of Pakistan on Chholian. Ismail
Ahmedani died at Karachi on 6 June 2007 and buried in his home village
of Rasoolpur.
[edit] Fiction authors
- Ismail Ahmedani, novelist and fiction writer, author of Amar Kahani, Peet de Pandh and Chhulian
- Ghazala Ahmedani, fiction writer, author of Aj de Marvi
- Mussrat Kalanchvi, fiction writer, author of Uchi Dharti Jhika Asman
- Batool Rahmani, fiction writer
- Zafar Lishari, fiction writer and novelist, author of novels Nazoo and Pahaj
- Ahsan Wagha, fiction writer, author of Thal Karen Darya and Aadi Was
- Hafeez Khan, fiction writer, author of Veendi Rut De Sham
- Aslam Aziz Durani, fiction writer
- Bast Bhutti, fiction writer
[edit] Linguists
- Mehr Abdul Haq, author of Multani Zaban Ka Urdu Se Taaluq
- Zami Bahawalpuri, author of Saraiki Lughat and Saraiki Zaban Ka Irtaqa
- Dilshad Kalanchvi, author of Saraiki Lisaniat
- Ahsan Wagha, M.Phil thesis The Saraiki Language: Its Growth and Development
- Shaukat Mughal, author of Saraiki Dian Khas Awazan Di Kahani, Saraiki Muhawaray, Saraiki Masadir, Saraiki Parhoon Te Saraiki Lekhoon and others
[edit] Critics
- Sadique Taher, writer of the collection of articles Wewaray
- Javed Chandio,
Head of the Siraiki Department in The islamia University of
Bahawalpur(Pakistan). He is the first and the only Ph.d in Siraiki
literature from the Siraiki Department. Author/editor of eight books on
Siraiki literature. writer of valuable critical work on Khwaja Ghulam Farid. His major work is as under:
Divan-i-Farid (1998) Khwaja Farid (1999) Allah Mailay Wal Sang Yaara
(2003) Maqalaat (2003) Armughan-i-Khwaja Farid (2003) Siraiki Zaban Adab
Aur Mua'shra (2007) Savail I & II (1995 & 1997)
Having many valuable research articles on his credit. Edited the
oldest qurterly journal "Siraiki" since 1999. Headed the oldest Siraiki
literary organization "Siraiki Adbi Majlis(Regd.) Bahawalpur" Since
1999. The First Gold Medalist in M.A. Siraiki and the first regular
teacher of the Siraiki language & Literature in any University of
Pakistan. He is still teaching in the University.
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[edit] Dramatists
[edit] Artists and performers
Many modern Pakistan Singers like
Hadiqa Kiyani and
Ali Zafar have also sung Saraiki folk songs.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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