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"name": "Syed Murtaza Dadahi",
"bio": "Syed Murtaza Dadahi (, 26 November 1939 - 15 February 2021) was a Sindhi Language poet. His poetry has been sung by many folk singers of Sindh. He penned down eight books comprising different genres of his poetry. He was recipient of Pride of Performance award from Government of Pakistan in 2017.\nSyed Murtaza Dadahi was born on 26 November 1939 in Village Dadah of Taluka Tando Bago, District Badin, Sindh, Pakistan. His was the only son of his father Syed Imamullah Shah. He started composing poetry at the age of 14 years under the guidance of senior poet Muhammad Khan Ghani. His poetry was first published in various newspapers and literary magazines of Sindhi language in the 1960s and 1970s. He earned fame owing to his unique way of poetry that was a source of encouragement and solace for the downhearted souls of the society.\nHis poetry has been sung by many famous singers including Abida Parveen, Master Muhammad Ibrahim, Dhol Faqir, Rubina Qureshi, Photo Zardari, Fozia Soomro and Sarmad Sindhi etc. He founded Bazem- e - Murtaza, Watayo Faqir Yadgar Committee, Dadahi Adabi Tanzeem and press Club Tando Allahyar.\nHe penned down following books comprising different genres of his poetry.",
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"bio": "\nGhulam Murtaza Syed (Sindhi: غلام مرتضيٰ سيد, 17 January 1904 – 25 April 1995), known as G. M. Syed was a prominent Sindhi politician, who is known for his scholarly work, passing only constitutional resolution in favor of the establishment of Pakistan from British India's Sindh Assembly (which is now Sindh Assembly) in 1943. Later proposing ideological groundwork for separate Sindhi identity and laying the foundations of Sindhudesh movement. He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Sindhi nationalism.\nHe was known by the people of Sindh as \"Saeen\".\nG.M Syed started his political career at the age of 16, when he organised Khilafat Conference at his hometown, Sann, on 17 March 1920. Syed was one of the earliest Sindhi politician who sought the creation of Islamic Pakistan, and became a vocal supporter of the Two-Nation Theory, advocated by the Muslim League leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah; Syed Sindhi's religious zeal for a purely Islamic state is witnessed after the Manzilgah incident, where he wanted to cleanse Sindh of its Hindus, stating: \"all Hindus shall be driven out of Sindh like the Jews from Germany\". However, once the independent nation was formed, he became a political prisoner of the state in 1948, due to differences with the country's leadership. He restated the political implementation of Sufi ideologies which advocated for Islamic principles, secularism, Sindhi nationalism and laid the basis for Sindhudesh Movement. He spent approximately thirty years of his life in imprisonment and house arrests for his political views. He was entitled as the prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International in 1995. He died during his house arrest in Karachi on 26 April 1995.",
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"name": "Namdev Tarachandani",
"bio": "\nNamdev Tarachandani is a Sindhi language writer and scholar from India. He lives in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. He was born on 25 November 1946 in Lukman (now in Khairpur district, Pakistan).\nJora-Kata (1974) is a novel written by him. It is translated into Gujarati as Vatta-Ochha (1980). Vikhoon (1981) and Paglan (1991) are his collections of short story while Athon-Sur (1984) and Manush Nagri (2011) are his poetry collections. His critical works includes Sindhi Katha Sahitya (2004) and Sach Chavan Ji Chhoot (2011). He received Sahitya Akademi Award (2013) for his book Manush Nagri. He also received the Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar for Sindhi language in 2011.\n",
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"name": "Harish Vaswani",
"bio": "\n\nHarish Hansraj Vaswani (Sindhi:ھريش ھنسراج واسواڻي) (22 November 1940 – 13 April 2013) was a Sindhi writer, poet and critic. and academic. He was a professor of Political Science and English literature. He is known as a pioneer of new Sindhi poetry and he was influential writer of Sindhi literature. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi award in 1987.\nHarish Vaswani was born in November 1940 in Lor Ilaayi in hill area of Baluchistan (now in Pakistan) to Vaswani family. His family, with his four siblings, fled to India after the Partition of India in 1947. They reached Saurashtra State (now part of Gujarat) by sea as refugees. They faced numerous hardships and had to live in refugee camps. His school education was frequently interrupted as the family moved from one town to another until it settled temporarily in Bantwa in Saurashtra.",
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