MOHALLA SOTHA: A UNIQUE LOCALITY OF MULTIDIRECTION FACES SOTHA ,AS THE NAME GOES,IS RELATED TO THE FAMOUS SOTH NADI,WHICH,ACCORDING TO ELDERS,WAS A NEIGHBOUR OF SOTHA.IT WAS ALSO THE PART OF RESIDENTIAL SECTOR OF HISTORIC QILA AND SO HAD AN ELEVATED PLACEMENT.THE ADJOINING MOHALLAS ARE QUBUL PURA,CHAKKAR KI SADAK,FARSHORI TOLA,MAULVI TOLA,KAMANGRAN,CHIKNI SADAK,CHAUDHERI SARAI.COMMING FROM LALPUL OR NAKTA KUAN SIDE,ONE CAN SEE THE HIGH –RISE BUILDINGS.AREAWISE IT IS THE BIGGEST COMPLEX OF BADAUN CITY HAVING SUB ZONES BY THE NAME OF SOTHA POLICE CHOWKI,SOTHA KHEL,BHANDARI KUAN,GALI MIRASIYAN,JUMMI CHOWK,HUJRAH,GALI BAKHSHON WALI,GOL GHAR,PAPRI TALA,SURAKH SHAHEED SB.,GALI PITARI WALI,GALI DAK KHANA,CHIKNI SADAK AND PUSHTA. SOTHA HAS ALWAYS TO ITS DISTINCTION THE PLACE OF GALAXY OF RENOWED RESIDENTS AS ULEMAS,SCHOLARS,POETS,CIVIL SERVANTS,ZAMINDARS,TEACHERS AND OTHERS FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE LIKE KABOOTARBAAZ AND PATANGBAAZ.THE POLISHED AND CULTURAL VALUES WERE THE TRADEMARKS OF ALL.THE BUILDINGS(SOME ALIVE SOME DEAD)SHOW CASED THE ASTHETIC SENSE OF ARTITECHTURE,AND KOTHI ALI JAN SB. MUKHTAR SB.,KOTHI ILTAFAT SB.,KOTHI INAYAT AHMED,SHEESH MAHAL,KOTHI ZAWWAR HUSSAIN,KOTHI YAQUB BAKSH SB.,HAPPY HOME AND MANY MORE.AREAWISE TASADDUQ MANZIL COME FIRST.NABI KHANA IS NO MORE NOW.NEEL KA GHAR IS UNTRACEABLE.AYAZ AAPA KA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS HAD BEEN RANKED AS THE FOREMOST EDUCATION CENTRE UPTO FIFTH CLASS.ABOUT MOSQUES SITUATED IN SOTHA MASJID SAADATH OR SAIYYADON WALI MASJID HAS A HISTORY TO THE CREDIT. MEHBOOB-E-ILAHI HAZRAT NIZAMUDDIN AULIA ALEY REHMAT,SPENT HIS CHILDHOOD DURINIC QURANIC STUDIES IN THIS MOSQUE.OTERS TO BE MENTIONED ARE MASJID KHAN,CHAMELI WALI MASJID,MASJID SATTAR BAKSH,INCLUDING SURAKH SHAHEED KI ZIAARAT,MARDANA KHAANA,HAZRAT MOULVI SYED YOUNUS ALI SAHEB,MOHADDIS BADAUNI,MAZAR SHEIKH CHAOO PEHELWAN.ALONG WITH FEW OTHER MAZAARAT WITHIN THE VICINITY OF SOTHA. FEW HOUSES HAVE BASEMENTS OR TAHKHANA, IN USE DURING SUMMERS THREE PHATAKS ARE STILL FAMOUS,PHATAK HABIB SB.,PHATAK NASIR SB.,(WAS TEACHER CUM DOCTOR)AND PHATAK NIZAM SB.SOME SHOKEEPERS ARE STILL IN THE MEMORY OF SENIORS-RASHEED THE FAMOUS PATANGBAAZ AND PATANGSAAZ,BACHOO BHAI THE STAMP VENDOR,ZIAUDDIN,RIZWAN AND BAQAULLAH AT JUMMI CHOWK.TO GET KEROSENE DURING WORLD WAR-II WAS LIKE JOOEY SHEER LANA BUT SHAUKAT MAMMA SO DIPLOMATICALS THAT ONLY ONE ALTERCATION LEADING TO THE DEATH OF ONE CUSTOMER WAS ON RECORD. ALI JAN SB’S HONY MAGISTRATE TENURE STILLS OCCUPIES THE MEMORY LANES OF ELDERS.HE SELDOME IMPOSED THE FINE OF TWO PAISA – 4 ANNAAS ON THE CULPRIT.NABI KHAN’S MEHFIL MILAD-UN-NABI,PITARI KA KHULNA AUR SALLA BALLA I MEHNDI DURING MOHARRAM PROCESSION WERE UNMATCHED AND UNPARALLELED.JULOOS MOHAMMED-BE MISAAL,RECOLLECT THE ABOVE 80 RESIDENTS. ABOUT RENOWED PERSONALITIES OF SOTHA,ENLISTING EVERYONE IS A HARD NUT TO CRACK AND CUMBERSOME JOB.SAMPLE SURVEY CAN BE PRESENTED FROM THE CROSS SECTION OF RESIDENTS(PAST AND PRESENT)FOR THE RECORD.HAZRAT MOULVI SAHAB MHADDIS BADAUNI,MUFTI LUTF,QAZI GHULAM SAJJAD SB. POET AND PERSIAN SCHOLAR,NIZAMUDDIN NIZAMI SB.,HAJI JAMEY SB.,,HAJI HAMZA SB.,MUJTAHIDUDDIN SB., ‘AIYESH’,SHAAD SB.,SYED MOHAMMED MUKHTAR SB.,JAAFAR HUSSAIN SB.,MANZOOR HUSSAIN SB.,BARRISTER IBRAHIM HUSSAIN SB.,AHIDUDDIN NIZAMI SB.,MOONIS NIZAMI SB.,SYED ALEY RASOOL SB.,TASADDUQ ALI SB.,SYED MUNAWWAR ALI SB.,SYED ALI SB.,(SAIYYAD BHAIYA),ALL ASSOCIATED WITH STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. COLLEGE,BADAUN.NASIRUDDIN SB.,NEYAZ BADAUNI,IRFAN SIDDIQI,PROF.AFZAL QADRI,YAQUB BAKSH SB.,MASTER BAQAR SB.,SIBTAIN SB.,MIR SAHEB MAKTOOB ALI,SYED ALEY NABI SB.,-THE FORMER CRICKET UMPIRE. THE LIFETIME POSTMASTER OF SOTHA.P.O., S.MUJTABA ALI HASHMI,KAFILUDDIN ALI SB.,PROF.ABDUL LAIS,WALI BAKSH QADRI,BABU RAZA AHMED SB.,REHMAN HUSSAIN FARSHORI,SHAFI AHMED,SADAN GHARANA. ONE OF THE SMARTEST AND WELL DRESSED PERSONALITY OF SOTHA SADAT-NAYAB JAN.(LIST INCOMPLETE).DR.CHUTTI,RAZI BADAUNI SB.DR.SADAQATULLAH,DR.HAFEEZ,QAZI MANZOOR(CHUTOO),MRS.NEWTON,THE LEGENDRY MIDWIFE-CUM-GYNOCOLOGIST.(THOSE WHO HAVE MIGRATED TO OTHER SOIL FOR BREAD AND BUTTER EARNINGS HAVE NOT BEEN INCLUDED DUE TO LACK OF INFORMATION). WE HAVE TRIED OUR LEVEL BEST TO IN CORPORATE PRECISELY THE FINDINGS ABOUT SOTHA.THE BEST JUDGE IS READER,PLEASE SCAN AND INFORM OUR EFFORTS ABOUT SOTHA,WHICH HAS GLORIOUS PAST,THE SHAKY PRESENT AND UNCERTAIN FUTURE,BECAUSE BADAUN’S FORWARD MARCH IS SNAIL SLOW,TRULY IT IS: “AYE BADAUN AAJ HUM ASHUFTA
