LARKANA, Oct 31: Sarkash Sindhi, a renowned poet, intellectual and author of nine books, was admitted to a private hospital on Monday for aggravation of prostate cancer. Dawn

Talking to , Sarkash said that he had been fighting cancer since 2001. About a year and a half ago his left leg was paralysed and since then he was on wheel chair but because of metastasis he could not even sit in the chair, he said.

He said that he would not ask the government for financial assistance. He only needed his friends and well-wishers' prayers, he said.

Sarkash, a retired high school teacher, has six poetry anthologies and three volumes of autobiography namely Dard-i-Dil, Amn Ab-i-Hayat, Piyar ain Azadi, Sindhu Gai Thi, Samund, Chholiyoon, Tahak and Zindagi ji Goonj to his credit.