Source: Hindustan Times | Manoj R Nair,
May 17, 2013
Since March 2012, thousands of postcards addressed to the Prime Minister's Office in New Delhi have been sent from cities and small towns in the country that has Sindhi-speaking residents. These handwritten messages postcards, which have the names and telephone numbers of the senders, have one
demand: a Sindhi-language television channel from government-run broadcaster Doordarshan.
Tens of thousands of these cards have been posted from Mumbai too. One group – the Bandra-based Friends of International Sindhis - collected Rs. 60,000 at their Diwali function in 2012 and purchased 1,20,000 postcards priced at 50 paise each.
Sindhi is one of the languages listed in the 8th schedule of the constitution, but with no linguistic state of their own to..............................
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