The two-day Shah Latif Children’s Festival, organized by the Sindhi Language Authority, concluded. Chief guest Jami Chandio stated that children, students, teachers, and parents participated in the two-day festival, which was named after Latif. He said that Latif is the greatest poet in the world, there are thousands of poets in the world, but the greatest poet is the one who has a great imagination, there will be no similarity in all the poems of the Shah, but one unity is found.

He said that if history is false in the curriculum of this country, which great person will create the curriculum in which diamonds are fake? Here, the great man became the one who gained knowledge by observing society and the environment. The chairman of the institution, Dr Ishaq Samejo, said at the closing ceremony, "Shah Latif Melo called for children has created a new hope that the future of the Sindhi language is not dark and the new generation of Sindh is eager to get intellectual guidance from the poetry of Shah Latif.

He said that Shah is the greatest poet not only of Sindh, but of the entire Sindh civilization, who was the most modern poet of his time. The most important thing is that all thinkers and philosophers are like teachers or fathers. But Shah Latif is the thoughtful mother of the people of Sindh, He has felt the pain of not only the people of Sindh, so all her characters share their pain as a mother, not as a father Literature, language are working on the culture, heritage and history of Sindh, so all the people including the authorized institution of Sindhi language can spread the knowledge of language, culture, heritage and Latif of Sindh together.

Dr. Muhammad Ali Manjhi, Dr. Shazia Patafi and others shared their thoughts in the closing ceremony. The first session on the last day of the festival held a discussion under the title of "Shah Latif, Sindhi Language and Today's Children" Sindhi. Researcher and playwright Aziz Kangrani, the guest of the discussion, said, "In the past, children's literary magazines were published for children and newspapers used to publish children's pages as if children were taught the curriculum.

Apart from reading literary material, it is not a trend anymore. Extracurricular activities should be done for the mental training of children. Their mental and conscious training should be done in school, earlier, there were literary organizations for children, magazines, and magazines were published, but nowadays, children who spend a lot of time on mobile phones need to do activities at the school level and make children participate.

This session was hosted by Khalid Azad. Children from different areas and schools participated in various activities at the festival. Saba Sindhu got the first prize, Bhatai Manzoor got the second prize and Amar Sindhu got the third prize among the children who participated in the speech competition. Children from different schools participated in the quiz competition.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)