The 90th death anniversary of Mirza Qaleech Baig was observed at Benazir Bhutto Chair & Convention Centre, University of Sindh, Jamshoro which was organized by the Mirza Qaleech Baig Chair here on Wednesday. Speaking at the ceremony, the speakers paid glowing tributes to the renowned writer for his services in the cause of Sindhi language and literature.
They said that Mirza Qaleech Baig was one of the greatest writers of the world but he was not given due recognition at official level even in the Sindh province.
In his presidential address, Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat deplored that no road or institution had been named after Mirza Baig in any city or town of the province and added that Sindh University took the initiative back in 2009 and established the Mirza Qaleech Chair which he said had been made more efficient to do with the publication of his books.
Defining the term Shamas-ul-Ulma as the sun of education and light, he said that Baig was a great scholar but he was not given his due place in the textbooks. Mirza Qaleech Baig's grandson Mirza Aijaz Baig said that his grandfather was the Adam of modern Sindhi literature and he had served the cause of Sindhi language all his life.
He said that the late writer had written 457 books in eight different languages on various 43 subjects, unearthing that Mirza Qaleech would know 25 languages of the world.
The grand grand-daughter Dr Faiza Mirza said that Persian had been the official language of Sindh in the Talpur era but the language saw a gradual decline during the British rule.
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