Conserve Seraiki language as tribute to Partition victims, says filmmaker

Tribune News Service

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Kurukshetra, December 31

Documentary filmmaker Keshav Multani has started garnering support to acknowledge Seraiki or Multani as an official Indian language.

Kurukshetra-based filmmaker is documenting personal experiences of several octogenarians during the Partition months. He said the rich language was dying in the absence of official acceptance and social recognition.

Multani urged Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who is himself from a Multani lineage, to take the issue of conservation of Seraiki with the Central Government.

“Those migrated to India after the Partition had an important role in the development of Haryana. Recognition of Seraiki will be a tribute to them,” he said.

He said eminent veteran poets and writers Uday Bhanu ‘Hans’, Mohinder Pratap ‘Chand’, and Dr Rana Pratap Ganaouri should be roped in by the state government as they had been working independently for their native Multani language.

He said the language should not be viewed as a foreign language.