The book which I have read “Maah ay sar o rochay Cher”. It is authored by a well-known Baloch writer Ghani Parwaz. This book was published in 2017 by Balochistan Academy Turbat. The writer of the book got fame by writing simple short stories and novels in Balochi and Urdu languages. His published books are titled as “Shap jathen raahi”, “Mehr e Hoshaam”, “Morthgen marday pachen Cham” and so forth. “Maah e sar o rochay Cher” is a novel. It is about a true love story. The main characters are Mehri and Sahir. Mehri is a Baloch girl from Balochistan. Sahir is an Urdu speaking boy from Rahim Yar district of Sindh.
Their love story begins by a wrong call. Mistakenly, Mehri's call goes to Sahir. When Sahir attends the call, then Mehri comes to know that she had dialed a wrong number. She switches off the phone. Sahir texts her and asks for her name. She does not tell her name rather asks the boy about his details. Sahir narrates his details. From then the conversation starts and it goes on. Later on, they feel that they love each other. So, they share their feelings. Both agree to stay in relationship. They plan many things like how to meet each other, how to marry, what to do in future, and the list of planning goes on.
The girl invites him to come in her home and bring the proposal of marriage. After that, they had to go to boy’s area. It was not easy for them to marry. They had to go through multiple hurdles. During this, they face many problems, such as, caste, race and nationality emerges to be the main problem. On the other hand, the cruelty that the Punjabi and Urdu speaking soldiers are doing in Balochistan with Baloch increases hatred in the hearts of Baloch. It was tough for the family of girl to do the marriage of their girl with someone whose tribe and people are doing cruelty and degrading acts with them.
This is not only a story, it describes the situations of Balochistan, like how the Punjabi soldiers behave with Baloch. It tells why Baloch hate the punjabis, why the common Baloch individual rebels against the government. Moreover, it narrates the power of love as well that how true love is strong. Why a person puts his life in danger is all because of true love that compels the person to bear each and every hurdle to achieve his love. In this story, boy ignores all the difficulties and comes in Balochistan to get his love. During the 1st and 2nd decades of 21st century, every Baloch hated punjabis and Urdu speaking people. Though the Punjabi civilians did not do anything bad with Baloch, but their soldiers did inhuman and degrading activities with Baloch. Because of this every Baloch hates Punjabis.
Sahir puts these all aside and comes to ask for the hand of the Baloch girl in Balochistan. This is the power of true love that compels a person from Rahim Yar Khan to come in Kech. I remember the dialogue of the king of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan. He says in his movie, “When you are in search of your true love, then every particle of the universe will support you to get your love.”
Finally, I recommend everyone to read the book to know the real face of Balochistan, what the situations of Balochistan were during the 1st and 2nd decades of 21st century and to get many other things as well. By reading the book, you will realize what the true love is and what the power of true love is. The book takes you to another world where you know who you are, what you have to do and how true love comes to meet.
Muhammad Amin Kech