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India has so many languages. So, my language is called Sindhi.

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In those days there were of course lot of

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English medium schools, convent schools, but some good person

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started a Sindhi school. And he thought there should be

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a Sindhi school where Sindhi kids can go and learn

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their language. English didn't start as second language until

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7th grade. So up to 7th grade it was just Sindhi,

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everything. So it was good!

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In '65 that means, two years after I came,

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we were only 30 Sindhis. You know

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we used to meet at each other's houses, mostly his

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students who came from the same University from Bombay and,

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then a couple of them from Minnesota. 

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Yeah, we will meet, have dinners, everybody brings a dish and--

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So we say, "Hey!"--just from fun, we said, "Oh, we are a Sindhi Association!"  

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And since then it has grown. We even celebrated 50 years of the Sindhi Association. 

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My daughter was the first child in the crew, and she still remembers, 

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"Oh! I used to enjoy going to Sindhi picnics,

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Sindhi Diwali." So now she has five-year-old twins

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and she says I want them to feel

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the part of this belonging to a group.