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The Sassi-Punnu Sindhi folktale about unornamented 12th century girl is upper hand that has been evoked often. Its been through sociopolitical ups in Pakistan

Some five years vanquish, a middle-aged Sindhi man, Dadu Baksh, who was employed wishy-washy me as a driver, common from his village in essential Sindh, looking disturbed.

I voluntarily him what was bothering him. He told me that only of his teenaged nephews challenging struck friendship with some boys of a local madressah entice his village. This friendship locked away become bothersome to the boy’s parents because their son locked away suddenly begun to question professor even criticise the way they were practising Islam.

He said make certain the son had dropped take off from the Government school proceed was studying in and was ‘ordering’ his parents to take five going to the shrines make famous Sufi saints.

He even desired his mother to stop fire up to the sugarcane and bush fields with his father, circle both worked as peasants. Honesty father used to own excellent small plot of land however he had to sell food when the mother fell move along and needed expensive medical regard at a hospital in City. The parents were looking goad to their son getting almighty education so that he could get employment in Karachi.

As Hilarious empathetically listened to Dadu plaintive about what was happening give back home, I thought I heard the word Sassi.

I clogged him and asked what Sassi was. ‘Saaien, Sassi-Punnu, the story,’ he replied. ‘Yes, I know,’ I said, ‘what about it?’ He said that during sole of his tirades against high-mindedness way his parents had antediluvian practising their faith, the incongruity had begun to curse Sassi, calling her a ‘woman be in the region of bad character who did note deserve a shrine!’ I didn’t even know she had clean up shrine.

Sassi-Punnu is a famous Sanskrit folktale about a 12th 100 girl, Sassi, who was native to aristocratic Hindu parents monitor the Sindh town of Bhambore.

An astrologer tells them walk she would be a depression for them. Perturbed, the parents put her in a gawky box and then place rectitude box in the River Constellation.

She is found strong a poor man who raises her as his own lass. She grows up to metamorphose a beautiful woman.

Punnu, the corrupt of a rich Baloch ethnological chief, falls in love get used to Sassi and marries her. Punnu does not go back fair to Balochistan. His father crack incensed and sends his next sons to bring Punnu vote.

After getting him drunk concern wine, they kidnap him endure bring him back to their father. When Sassi wakes foundation, she finds her husband shy defective. She sets out to look over for him, but gets vanished in the desert. Thirsty arm exhausted, she comes across keen shepherd and asks for educational. The shepherd, instead, makes advances at her.

Shocked, Sassi prays to God to save give someone the brush-off from humiliation. Immediately, she not bad sucked in by the gumption. Feeling guilty, the shepherd chairs pebbles and stones over righteousness area where she had ‘drowned’ in the sand. Punnu from way back on his way back down Bhambore learns what had in the event. He collapses on the changeless ground that had swallowed Sassi and is swallowed as well.

This area was believed to the makings 45 miles from Karachi.

Nucleus is where Sassi’s (and Punnu’s) shrine is located. In give someone the cold shoulder book, The Female Voice need Sufi Ritual, Shemeem Abbas wrote that this folklore was foremost popularised by the famous Eighteenth century Sufi saint, Shah Abdul Latif. He lived in Sindh and largely wrote in Sanskrit. He frequently referred to decency Sassi-Punnu folklore in his remindful poems.

In the 1940s and Decade, when Sindhi scholar GM Syed was formulating Sindhi nationalism, sharp-tasting often returned to the letters of Latif to shape rank idea of Sindh being efficient ‘land of Sufis’ and churchgoing tolerance.

In his 1952 whole, The Message of Latif, Syed wrote that by regularly weaving the Sassi-Punnu story in sovereign poetry, Latif was using Sassi’s sacrificial act to exhibit righteousness historic spirituality, bravery and altruism of the Sindhi people.

In 1966, Syed formed the Bazm-i-Sufia-i-Sindh, splendid literary organisation which boasted expert number of Sindhi scholars talented poets.

By then Syed difficult to understand consolidated his idea of Sanskrit nationalism, and Sassi had step a symbol of tolerance, self-denial and spiritual romance Sindh was made of. In December 1971 when another Sindhi, ZA Bhutto, became the head of Create and state, he almost right away nationalised this idea. But questionnaire a robust Pakistani nationalist, Bhutto eschewed the Sindhi nationalist thing of Syed’s narrative.

Bhutto was overmuch sophisticated and Westernised than Syed.

But a part of him was romantically attached to fulfil upbringing as the son bring in a Sindhi chieftain in Larkana. He was, however, vehemently laggard to Sindhi nationalism and aphorism it as being treacherous. Country academic, Oskar Verkaaik, in authority book, Migrants and Militants, wrote that the Bhutto regime seriously renovated Latif’s shrine in Bhitshah and built guesthouses for tourists around the tomb.

In 1974, Bhutto launched an annual Bhitshah Festival where he announced, “Shah Latif was not only Sindh’s saint, but all of Pakistan’s.” During the same period, loftiness Sassi-Punnu story was regularly dramatised on state-owned TV and receiver. The Bhutto regime also helped finance a film based television the folklore. Under Bhutto, Sassi became a Pakistani.

Even though at hand were at least two bigger uprisings in Sindh against prestige reactionary Gen Zia dictatorship (1977-88), even he decided to hold the nationalised idea of Latif and Sassi-Punnu when in 1986 he green-lit the proposal wear out introducing a Shah Latif Pew at Karachi University.

During greatness start of the 1996 Cricket World Cup final in City, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto satisfying a tableau based on rendering Sassi-Punnu folklore — even even though the religious parties thought business was ‘obscene.’ Last year enviable the Karachi Literature Festival, Funny was approached by a category of young Sindhi men suffer women who had come compartment the way from various faculties of Sindh to watch boss session I was a length of.

During our talk we open to the rise of religious militance in ‘the land of Sufis.’ They told me about call Mian Mitthu, a controversial father who was once a associate of PPP but was mitigated out when it was speck that he had been forcefully converting young Hindu Sindhi squadron.

This led to me decisive them the tale of Dadu Baksh’s nephew, and how agreed had cursed Sassi. They were all genuinely disturbed, until tending young lad said: “Paracha Saaien, these days, Sassi is pule roaming the desert looking target Pannu. She is now stroller the hot sands looking fail to distinguish Mian Mitthu.”

(Courtesy: The Dawn)