THATTA, Nov 7: A group of poetry lovers in India are compiling unpublished verses of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai and Shah Karim Bulri Waro and the anthology will be launched during the next Urs celebrations of the latter.

This was said by Ramesh Kumar, an intellectual from Ajmer (India) while talking to this correspondent at Bulri Shah Karim where 397th Urs celebrations of Shah Karim Bulri Waro, great grandfather of Shah Latif and one of the pioneering poets of Sindhi language, concluded on Thursday evening.

A large number of disciples and festival lovers from different parts of Sindh and India had thronged the dusty town of Bulri Shah Karim for the last four days to participate in the colourful celebrations.

They included members of Jat community from lower Sindh and Rajasthan, Kachhi people, including children and women, from Karachi, and devotees from Jodhpur, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Mumbai (India).

The celebrations commenced with the laying of a wreath and the offering of prayers by the custodian of the shrine, Pir Asad Shah Kazmi, and the custodian of the shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, Nisar Hussain Shah, and concluded with the soul singing of the mystic poetry of the Shahs by black-clad Faqirs late Thursday night.

Ox and horse shows, Malakhra (Sindhi wrestling) and other events were also held on the occasion.

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