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Baloch women celebrate with zeal and fervour, on the birth of a baby in villages and even in the city. They mix pure oil and sugar in a pot and then warm the mixture. When it’s warm enough, some of the mixture is sprinkled in four corners of a room, and the rest is fed to children.

At night time, a small fire is created in front of the house in which the child was born.

Little girls and grown women dance around the fire until midnight, clapping and singing and praying for a bright future of the child.

We, in local Balochi language say that they sing sepat, lelock, chogan, and many others with their melodious sounds.

Boys, on there hand, play different kinds of Balochi games like sachi, kapagi, tapagi, ware, hadoki, etc, in the surrounding of that fire to pass their times and enjoy the rare coming moments.

Little girls and grown women dance around the fire until midnight, clapping and singing and praying for a bright future of the child

In the second day, the neighbours, relatives or the pajarok means the one who has a relationship with her, will visit to see her and asked her condition. So, the visitors are welcomed and served with sweet syrup, halwa or any other tasty things.

Besides this, the visitors will be served something else, as well. Koprai tahel will be given to them to put it in their head, and Sant to put the beautiful smell at their wearing clothes.

This process will be continued like so till six days and nights, where the people always visit to her and, on the other hand, the girls and women will praise the child with their amazing and heart touching words and sentences.

The seventh nights of the child or baby is called shashgan. ‘Shashgan’, however, is derived from two words. Shash means six and gan simply means gone. With short words, shashgan means the sixth days has completed to the cute baby.

The seventh night is celebrated with most fascinating and exciting manner. Since, in this night all of the children of village and many of the adults will participate in this occasion.

In this especial night the members or the parents distribute halwa, sewahi, or any other kinds of delicious things will be served to every participants.

In addition, the baby will be named at any day. Some put the name of the baby at first day, some in second, or some even though put his/her name at the night of sheshgan. This depends, on the relatives or the owner of child when and what kind of name they will put to him/her.

And this is how the night of sheshgan ends along with other festivities.

The writer is a student and who can be reached at waheedwahid774@gmail.com