Ram panjwani biography of mahatma

  • Dada Ram Panjwani was truly myriad minded, many splendoured person.
  • He was born on November 20, 1911 in Larkana.
  • Their Colaba home became an open house for Sindhi intellectuals and folk singer Ram Panjwani often performed there.

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    Growing up with the Mahatma

    Like him, she proved more than a match for those she took on - be it the British outside whose office she lay down on a blazingly hot day to thwart the auction of foreign liquor licenses; or the Sindhi shopkeeper who’d planned to sell foreign cloth at the dead of the night, only to find this teenager on a patient vigil at his doorstep; or the jail superintendent who found himself forced to change the uniform for female inmates, and fix latches on the doors of their toilets, because this wisp of a girl went on a hunger strike for these demands.

    To those of us for whom the Freedom Movement has become a simple history text, Kamla was a living illustration of the spell cast by in that age. But Kamla was neither ordinary nor timid.

    When she was forced to drop out of school to look after younger siblings, she devoured every scrap of paper she could lay her hands on, mot finally she could take it no more and joined a local Sindhi school t
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    RAM PANJWANI, THE ARTIST


    By Prem Matlani

    Struggling nations need strong personalities to look up for guidance. History discovers such personalities and they carry forward history alongwith them. History has many such entities but very few leave an indelible mark on it. The land of Sindh has been fortunate enough to produce stalwarts who have enhanced the glory of their motherland. Ram Panjwani is one of them.

    He was born on November 20, 1911 in Larkana. He finished his matriculation at Larkana and was lucky to have the company of Sai Kishinchand (Bewas). The latter heard him singing the poem 'Sabh kan tunhji sarah' which pleased him greatly as it was penned bygd Kishinchand (Bewas) himself. Later on, Ram Panjwani became Sai Kishinchand's spiritual son. Sai Bewas used to say that Ram Panjwani would prove to be a voice of deaf 'Bewas'.

    Ram Panjwani joined 'Chandka Amature Dramatic Society' which was founded by Sai Kishinchand (Bewas). Panjwani used to perform diverse character

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    IN MY STUDY

    By Dr. Motilal Jotwani

    40 Years of the Sindhi Recognition Day

    As the Sindhis in India and abroad celebrated 40 years of the Sindhi recognition day on 10 April, 2007, we remembered the efforts put in for the purpose by the late Sri Jairamdas Doulatam et al. Before we discuss Sri Jairamdas`s role in the matter, let me quote the four entries, pertaining to him, as given in A Dictionary of Sindhi Literature (New Delhi; the third edition, 10 April, 2007), authored by me:

    d`aheen aprel, 10 April, 1967, the day the Sindhi language was recognized by the Indian Constitution, The day is celebrated in Indian Sindhi circles with gaiety and gusto.

    JAIRAMDAS DOULATRAM (1891-1979), a first-rate scholar, and the first Chief Editor of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. The scholars who wish to follow the development of Sindhi language and literature through the centuries cannot do without the study of his essays, he wrote from time to time on the subject. During the last