Mumbai, India (CHAKRA) – A tight-knit Sindhi community in Ulhasnagar on the north-east side of Mumbai is facing social problems due to many recent refugees converting from Hinduism to Christianity. The township was made for Sindhi refugees who came from Pakistan after partition. The conversions have increased drastically within the last two years.
Indian Sindhi’s who dealt with the traumatic experience of living in Pakistan after partition, are known to be some of the staunchest Hindus in India, so it is no surprise that many of the elders are not in high spirits after revelations of conversions.
About 1.75% of the Sindhi population has changed their religious faith within the last two years. That is about 7000 people out of 400,000 Sindhi speaking Hindus in Ulhasnagar. The Sindhi Hindu community is upset with the sudden drastic changes and are more so because many of the Sindhi’s who have converted do not consider it to be a conversion but rather state that they have just chosen a different faith. Most have not even changed their Hindu names.
Some Hindus have been upset with this and claim that they have no hatred towards any religion but they believe that if someone is going to follow another religion, then technically their names should be changed as well. They believe that global recession is to blame for these conversions in the last two years in which missionaries have come in, offered “big gifts” to increase a following towards Christianity.
“When people have lost their businesses and have a hard time making ends meet, the victims of the results of a recession should not be taken advantage of by another community to convert,” said a senior citizen from the community.
The Sindhi speaking Hindu’s in Ulhasnagar take pride in their strength to leave Pakistan during the partition rather than being forced into converting to Islam. Millions of Hindus were forced to convert to Islam while stuck on the Pakistan side of the border after partition so the Sindhi speaking Hindus who escaped and defeated that pressure are left confused with this new trend of conversions over just a recession.
KT says
April 22, 2010 at 1:14 pmThat is indeed the besy news, people are trying to what Jesus is and to live like Him.
Praise the Lord.
KT says
April 22, 2010 at 1:15 pmThat is indeed the best news, people are trying to know what Jesus is and to live like Him.
Praise the Lord.
BA says
April 25, 2010 at 3:12 pm@KT ..
Best news ? haha .. at the end these are conversions .. NOT True CHristians .. Missionaries are BIG BLOT to our NATION !!
BLOODY SHIT !
BA says
April 26, 2010 at 12:47 pmAre you done BA ? feels good to express the flowery language. This is exactly the religious people did to JC. They mocked him, spat on hime. beat him and finally nailed him. They still are doing these as though that is not enough. Jesus Christ is the most special in the world and all non christians will goto hell.
Mr. Sharif says
October 7, 2010 at 4:10 pmJESUS CHRIST NEVER EXISTED
1. Jesus Never Existed. Jesus Christ and his whole story in the Bible is just myth. 100+ books have been written by famous white Europeans and Americans proving this. The Jesus myth was copied from the Zorastrian myth of Mithra.
Since Christianity is based on Christ and he never existed, Christianity collapses.
2. The Bible (especially the Old Testament) is full of violence, barbarity, criminality, pedophilia and incest. It is a lie to call such a book a “religious book.”.
3. There is little morals and culture in Christianity. Christians, even pastors, smoke, drink, use drugs and sexually abuse women and children.
There are 1000’s of websites on the internet exposing Christianity. Christianity is dying in the West, so they are trying to save it by fooling poor Sindhis in Ulhasnagar to convert. We must wake them up!!
halfwit says
October 9, 2010 at 7:44 am@ Mr. Sharif
Jesus NOT EXISTED IS AN ONLY A DISTROTED IDEA
Also about your judgemental comments on morals and culture on others, your post itself is testimony of culture and morals of your community has been imbibed in you. Think over it in your quiter moments.
Dayal says
November 2, 2010 at 11:15 amWhy did we give land to these idiots as a compromise? just because A NON-SENSE AND BLOODY HALF-MINDED PERSON Called sardar patel wanted to secure his plans!! or just cuz NEHRU had good conveniencing skills, or M.GANDHI threatened to die of hunger OR WAS THIS FORCEFULLY IMPOSED ON SINDHIS!! I can’t digest the fact why our land was given out, why did our ancestors made this compromise. We have to make compromise till date, and it will continue for forth coming generations!!
If we are in MP, UP we have to salute local hindi bashi, if in Gujarat we have to be at Gujarati’s mercy, if in maharastra in marthi’s mercy, in caclutta under bengoli idiots and even in south…these people don’t know how to even talk and they take sindhi’s for granted!!
They all develop good infra around their community even the local govt. of state supports such deed, while there is literally unhygienic living conditions at all sindhi areas in almost all cities!! HAVE THEY TAKEN CARE OF OUR COMMUNITY AFTER SNATCHING OUR LAND TO KEEP THEIR LAND SAFE!!
Its great that sindhi’s live in a closed camps with super dense sindhi populations, but is that sufficient?? I see this as a danger signal!! OUR ARYAN CULTURE is going to astingush down the line of time. I got proofs of this: some sindhi’s turn radha swami’s some more go for satya sai and instead of hydrabadi, amils they call them selves radha swami’s, some call them sai followers, some wahe guru….SHIT…..WHAT ARE WE DOING. Its not at all bad on religious front, but its a big BLUNDER on cultural front!!
INSTEAD OF BOOSTING OF YOUR BRAIN POWER AND ANCIENT CIVILIZATION, COME FORWARD TO BE AN ACTIVE POLITIAN, AN IAS, AN IPS, A BIG BUSINESS TYCOON AND TAKE OTH TO SNATCH BACK SINDH ONE DAY AND GIFT IT TO YOUR COMMUNITY. THAT IS THE TRUE SERVICE TO KEEP UP YOUR ORIGINALITY. Doing cloth etc business and pouring money in snobish lifestyle will just drag us to extinction.
LET’S SOW THE SEED TODAY AND I AM SURE IT WILL BECOME A BIG TREE SOON TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE SHELTER TO SINDHI’S AROUND THE WORLD AND BRING THEM BACK TO THEIR ORIGINALITY.
Dev says
November 15, 2010 at 9:12 amThose who say they follow Jesus and favor conversion never understood Jesus at all. They all live in delusion. Jesus gave his life for the benefit of people and those who are getting benefited in the number of conversions are doing exactly opposite of him. Rather than following true Jesus they are following Pope and his army of Marketing Agents (Missionaries) who fool around people in the name of salvation and convert them. Christianity itself is a bogus, politically motivated, global business & not a religion.
Enl barti says
May 13, 2011 at 2:16 amJo srdar ptel ko gali de vo isaiyo/angrejo ka chmcha h.
rohit says
July 24, 2011 at 10:10 amso these people have become christians,i wud like to ask them 1 thing,since now they r christian and christianity clearly says dat all those who r not christian go to hell for eternity and are tortured forever by jesus,these people believe dat all thr relatives and all thr ancestors who came from pakistan are being tortured forever in hell and they worship d same god,quie sick in my view,and all those who say jesus died for us,well he is supposed to have died for sins of humanity commmitted by adam and eve after original sin and fall of man wich we know is a myth,adam and eve never existed they r myths,thr is no original sin,all religions r man made and fake at d end of d day but hinduism is anyday better than christianity
Robert says
January 14, 2012 at 2:29 amThe Holy Bible in Sindhi is now ready. Free download for Ulhasnagar and all India.
Daddy says
January 15, 2012 at 10:49 amChristianity is bogus joke over mankind. All is done by pope’s agents . Government is unable to crisscross these bloody shitfaced missionaries because raul vinci, bianca vadera and antonio mayno all are one of them . . Christianity sucks. All cartoons including their pope and their imaginary jesus know from the hell where they might be that christianity is collapsing in their stronghold western part of globe , as majority of people in west are turning into hinduism and buddhism and that without any lust or money given to them, therefore these shitfaced missionaries are befooling the people of rural and backward parts of india and africa continent. . . .