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"name": "Sawan Fakir",
"bio": "Sawan Fakir or Sawan Faqir (died 1918) was a classical Sindhi poet who used to recite poetry of a typical Sindhi form- \"Bait\". His \"baits\" were of great length.\nSawan Fakir belonged to Khaskheli tribe and was born in village Shahdad Khaskheli near Nindo Shaher (Badin District) in 1875–1870. Sawn Faqir used to graze cattle in his village. During drought of Chhapno he left Badin area and went to village Fazal Khaskheli where he started working as peasant with Wadero Khabbar Odejo in Juddho area.\nSawan Fakir wife and two brothers died due to cholera spread in 1918. Maula Bux Khaskheli, Sidiq Faqir of village Ghulam Hussain Jamali Taluka Badin, Bachayo Faqir Todo Faqir of Odero Lal were among his students.\nAli Kahn Korai, Hassan Faqir Hingoro, Taji Khan Chandio used to sung his \"Bait\". While among Alghozo players were Muso Khaskheli, resident of village Kandri, near Rajo Khanani, Hussain Khaskheli village Kandri, Khabbar Khaskheli ( blind person) resident of Seenhao taluka Tando Bago, Faqir Gulo Othari of Badin.",
"raw_bio": "Sawan Fakir or Sawan Faqir (died 1918) was a classical Sindhi poet who used to recite poetry of a typical Sindhi form- \"Bait\". His \"baits\" were of great length. Sawan Fakir belonged to Khaskheli tribe and was born in village Shahdad Khaskheli near Nindo Shaher (Badin District) in 1875–1870. Sawn Faqir used to graze cattle in his village. During drought of Chhapno he left Badin area and went to village Fazal Khaskheli where he started working as peasant with Wadero Khabbar Odejo in Juddho area. Sawan Fakir wife and two brothers died due to cholera spread in 1918. Maula Bux Khaskheli, Sidiq Faqir of village Ghulam Hussain Jamali Taluka Badin, Bachayo Faqir Todo Faqir of Odero Lal were among his students. Ali Kahn Korai, Hassan Faqir Hingoro, Taji Khan Chandio used to sung his \"Bait\". While among Alghozo players were Muso Khaskheli, resident of village Kandri, near Rajo Khanani, Hussain Khaskheli village Kandri, Khabbar Khaskheli ( blind person) resident of Seenhao taluka Tando Bago, Faqir Gulo Othari of Badin.",
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"name": "Shah Inayat Shaheed",
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"name": "Sikandar Khan Khoso",
"bio": "Mir Sikandar Khan Khoso (1912–1975) was a poet, politician, and landowner from the Jacobabad District in Sindh, Pakistan. He was the youngest son of Mir Bahadur Khan Khoso.\nHe was a Sufi who entered politics with a vision to serve humanity after the death of his brother, Khan Sahib Shahal Khan Khoso. He introduced Mir Dariya Khan Khoso into politics by defeating Mir Jafar Khan Jamali.\nMir Sikandar Khan published his first book of Sufi lyrics under the name Subh Mein Punhoon Paan in 1973. The following lyrics were adapted into a kafi by the late musician Ustad Muhammad Juman in 1974 on Radio Pakistan in Hyderabad:\n\"Ishq munjhoon izhar thee ayo nehin karey nirwar thee ayo.\"",
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"name": "Abu Raja Sindhi",
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"name": "Abul Hassan Sagheer Sindhi",
"bio": "Abul Hassan Sagheer Sindhi (Arabic: أبو الحسن بن محمد صادق السندي، المدني), also known as Makhdoom Abul Hassan thatvi (d.1176 AH/1724 AD), was a Muslim scholar who is known as the founder of the old 40 letter Sindhi writing system. ",
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"name": "Ali Baba ",
"bio": "\nAli Baba (Sindhi: علي بابا, Urdu: علی بابا), (1940 – 8 August 2016) was a renowned short story writer, novelist, poet and playwright of Sindhi including Urdu-language. He received awards for Pride of Performance . He died on 8 August 2016 due to heart attack in his home Karachi.\nAli Baba's actual name was Ali Muhammad and he was born to Muhammed Ramzan Rind at Kotri, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan in 1940. His parents migrated from Balochistan to Sehwan Sharif Sindh. Afterward they made Kotri as permanent residence. He got primary education from Nango line primary school Kotri and matriculation from Sher Dil Khan Municipal High school Kotri. His father served in railway department. He also served as clerk but resigned. Later he joined as Assistant Manager in a textile mill. He left this job as well. He started writing from 1965.\nHe was notable for the following works:",
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"name": "Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti ",
"bio": "Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti is an engineer turned educationist, poet and academic author from Sindh, Pakistan. He has written more than two hundred books including several textbooks in Sindhi, Urdu, and English Language.\nAli Bhatti received his engineering degree from Sindh Agriculture University and then Masters in English Literature from University of Sindh. His poems and articles appear in different newspapers.\nAli Bhatti has authored more than two hundred books which have also been kept on exhibitions. His major publications include Unshed Tears, \nYadgar Dictionary of Computer Terms, Fundamentals of English Grammar, and Khofnak Sazish, a children's novel.\n",
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"name": "Haleem Brohi",
"bio": "Haleem Brohi (5 August 1935 – 28 July 2010, Hyderabad) was a prominent Pakistani author and journalist, active in the Sindhi language. He is considered the second greatest satirist is Sindhi literature after Ali Mohammad Brohi.\nBrohi was the son of Aziz Brohi, a police officer. He graduate from the University of Sindh in 1956 and completed his LLB in 1960. He was married with four daughters.\nIn his early career, he practiced law and also served at Sindh University in various capacities. He retired from Sindh University as chief accountant in 1980.\nBrohi started writing in 1967. He published more than ten books. Amongst them were, in English: Solo Decayed, Nothing In Particular, Nothing In Earnest and in Sindh: Haleem Show, Orah (1975) and Hitler ji Kahani (1972), all in the early to mid-1970s.",
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"name": "Ameer Bux Shar",
"bio": "\nAmir Bux Shar was a notable Sindhi-language poet and writer of Pakistan. In addition to his writing, he was also a social worker. He was a dedicated leftist throughout his entire life. Being born in a family living under a wrenched hut, he proved himself as one of the most educated man in that society and later on, throughout Sindh. Amir used to write in various newspapers in his adulthood and continued this practice till his last breath. His autobiographies Rae Per Rat Kaya(رائي پيرَ رت ڪيا) and Chipon Per Chinan(ڇپون پيرَ ڇنن) are one of the notable works in Sindhi literature. Along with these two his work on Kahlora Rule in Sindh was a masterpiece in their history. Shar translated Documents which he got from Mian Gul Muhammad Kalhore, the successor of Kalhora Hukumrans, living in Mirpurkhas.\n\nThis Pakistani biographical article is a stub. You can help Kavishala by expanding it.",
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"name": "Dayaram Gidumal",
"bio": "Dayaram Gidumal Shahani (30 June 1857 – 7 December 1927) or Rishi Dayaram, was an Indian social reformer, judge, poet, and scholar. He was known as the godfather of Sindhi Hindus.\nBorn in Hyderabad, Sindh, Dayaram received his early education in Persian at home from Akhoond Noor Mahammed. He later studied at Elphinstone College in Bombay and joined the Civil Service. He rose to the position of Judicial Commissioner in Sindh but chose not to accept a position as High Court Judge.\nHe helped establish the D.J. Sindh College in Karachi and supported education for women. He was a scholar of Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit. He retired in 1911 to Bombay where he lived in a \"Blue Bungalow\" on the beach. He founded the Seva Sadan along with Behramji Malabari. He published numerous books including Sata saheliyun (Seven girl-friends, 1906) and Chabak mana lai ain rihan (Lashes for the mind, 1923–29). Works in English include The History of a Humble Soul (a biography of Sadhu Hiranand), Something about Sindh (1882) and a biography of Malabari with an introduction by Florence Nightingale. He wrote on religion and spiritualism under the pen-names of Zero, Bijal and Sigma.\nDayaram married when young Yashoda and had two sons and three daughters. His second marriage was at the age of 56 to a young girl Urmila aged 26 in his Ashram in 1913. He withdrew himself from society after this: it was apparently to protect the girl who had become pregnant after a relationship with another boy in the ashram.",
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"bio": "\nMohan Deep (born Mohan Kishinchand Chandirramani in 1948), is an Indian writer. He has written multiple books on Bollywood film personalities, including the books: The Mystery and Mystique of Madhubala, Simply Scandalous: Meena Kumari, and Eurekha!: The Intimate Life Story of Rekha (an unauthorised biography of Rekha). In recent years, he has focused on writing fiction. Two of his novels are The Five Foolish Virgins (2013) and Color Me Rich (2016).\nDeep was born as Mohan Kishinchand Chandirramani and his family belonged to a Sindhi (Hyderabadi Aamil) family that migrated from Karachi (Sind) (now in Pakistan) in the wake of the partition. He spent his early life in Bombay's western suburbs, Kandivli.\nHe started as a short story writer and novelist in Sindhi when he was doing his schooling. His published work includes over 200 short stories, two novels namely Surg Munhje Baahun Mein (Heaven in My Arms; 1964) and Khaali Haath (Empty Hands; 1969), a collection of short stories entitled Parai Aurat (The Other Woman; 1970) and a collection of poems named Munhje Paachhe jo Hik Hisso (1972). He started writing in English after getting an honours degree in English literature from the University of Pune in 1974. He was actively associated with Sahitya Akademi. His works are known for their psychological approach.",
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