Naseem Thebo

06:53 Tania Saleem 0 Comments

Naseem Thebo , Roshan Mughal’s niece, Badam Natawan’s daughter, Rasool Bux Palijo's wife and my mother  inherited the art of writing from her mother Badam Natawan. She was born in Shikarpur and she got an early education from Ghari, a village in Dadu district and did MA in Economics from University of Sindh Jamshoro. Born in a landlord family on her paternal side she observed the village life very closely and all the impinging images of village life later on got transformed into the short stories written by her . Although her father was not a typical wadera but even then there was enough misery and injustice faced by the village folks that left it’s mark on her sensitive mind .

She wrote her first short story ” Ghoran Ji Rekha” meaning  “line of teardrops” when she was studying in tenth standard. The subject of this story was poverty. She wrote many other short stories as well. Titles of her other stories are “Ghayal The Ghariyan” meaning “living being injured”, “Wadhay Jin Widhiyas”, “Mon Jherenday chadia” meaning “I left them fighting ” this story was written on the subject of separation of East Pakistan from west Pakistan,” Ubhur Chand Pas Piren” ” O Moon rise and behold my beloved”, “Rasando Bharjando Ghaav” meaning “Lacerating Healing Wound” , “Ahsas Ja Chak” etc. Most of the titles of her short stories are taken from the verses of  great Sindhi Sufi Poet Shah Abdul Latif bhittai.


Many of her stories are written in the backdrop of village life, she had chance to witness up-close. The misery of women folk, plight of Hari’s at the hands of landlords, thanna culture, were some of the glimpses of ugly side of village life that found place in her stories. later on she wrote many stories on the intricacies of relationships especially that of man and woman with each other. All these stories were published in different popular journals of Sindhi literature of that time , such as “Sojhro”, “Barsat”, ” Halchal” , ” Mehran” etc.

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