This linguistically variegated poet, who belonged to the depth of the rural Indus Valley, has been called ‘The Attar of Sindh’ - Attar being the rather well-known Central Asian Persian Sufi poet of Nishapur, who died some 600 years before Sachal.
The urs of the sonorous Sufi poet of the 18th-19th century, Sachal Sarmast, starts in just a few days on the 13th day of Ramazan, in the small, glowing village of Daraza Sharif near Khairpur.
