Tirth Basant

Born on 7 September 1909 at Lukman village Khairpur Sindh, Basant was not so lucky as his mother has expired even before he reaches to age of two years hence, he was cared by his Grand Mother, she used to be a religious woman and surrounding area of residence were also a bit over loaded with famous spiritual locations. Under the influence of all these even from early childhood Tirth Basant was finding within self a kind of temptation for the world different from the normal physical world. He left the home at the tender age of ten years so the formal schooling or traditional education becomes not arise question. This was his wisdom that he compensated this short coming with deep study of Western Literature, Philosophy, Economic, History and Social Science, this was also essential for him as for the lively hood he was taking tuitions of students pursuing for B.A., M.A. or even a degree in Science. So be a level above he studied the subject very deeply.
Tirth Basant has introduced self to literary world with English articles published in eminent publications like “Sindh Observer “and “Advance India”. Vishan Jagityani inspired Tirth Basant for writing in Sindhi for his newspaper “Roshani” and within no tome Tirth Basant was on the list of writers of “Fuleli” most popular Sindhi Magazine published from Hyderabad and was renowned for very high standards of writing.
Tirth Basant has served the Sindhi Literature for a period of about half century and has expressed his excellence in almost all the horizons of literature. This might be essays, stories, Biography, Drama, Criticism or even poetry [ though a very little poetic work of him is known] every literary creation of Tirth Basant has set new standards of writing. He has credit of more than 40 books though the complete list of his books is not available.
Hamlet, Heroes and Hero Worship, King’s Lady are among the list of books translated by Tirth Basant, who had a great influence of famous saint “Mira Bai” and has presented her life with new vision in the form of Drama titled “Mira”. One thing which needs to be mentioned here essentially that Tirth Basant has not just used the Sindhi Phrases and proverbs in his writing very effectively but also at many places his language appeared to be under influence of Persian language so the people born and bright in India after independence might find a bit difficult to understand him at several places. This true devotee of Sindhi literature expired on 30 September 1994.
Birth Date : 07 September 1909
Death : 30 September 1994