Krishin Rahi

Krishin Sunderdas Vachhani was born at Larkana Sindh on 25 February 1932, at the time of partition of country when Sindhis forced to migrate India he was in his teen age, but was enough young to remember the pains, suffering and humiliations people of migrated Sindhi community were going under which during the initial years of getting resettled in the life.
After the Vachhani foamily get some what stability in life. Education of Krishin Rahi was restarted and he had completed his graduation in Arts [B.A.] from Bombay University. After acquiring graduation degree in very short span of time he got a job at Bhabha Atomic Research Center.

Krishin Rahi started his literary journey with writing of short stories which were published in various newspapers and periodicals. So, when in 1956 his story collection Lurak Ain Murak was published he not only become popular among the readers but also the established personalities of Sindhi literature have started looking at him as the serious contributor to Sindhi literature. In the years to come his writing horizon expanded to Sindhi Poetry and Literary Criticism also. In the year 1969 his poetry collection Kumach was published. Most of critics were sensing an essence of Sindhi Folklore in the literary creations of Krishin Rahi. During the almost half decade’s literary life he has edited many periodicals.

According to literature critics of his time he was a Sindhi poet who followed old traditional thought of writing Sindhi poetry and was well aware of progressive Sindhi poetry. If one look at Kumach his poetry collection for he was received Sahitya Akademi Award will find that actually Krishin Rahi has own significant style of Sindhi poetry which can said finest fusion traditional and progressive Sindhi Poetry writing. In one of poem Sindh Ain Sindhi of this book Krishn Rahi has expressed his pains of getting separated from the motherland. He wrote that even after having so many rivers in India, is it possible for Sindhi community to forget own Sindhu river.

Similarly in the literary criticism he become darling of personalities of Sindhi literature just because he kept his literary criticism within limit of doing the job in constructive and positive ways.

His some of famous books are “Lurk Ain Murk” [short Stories published in 1956] and “Kumach” [published in 1969] for which he was honored with Sindhi Sahitya Academy Award. Krishin Rahi and his wife Maya Rahi [2015] are the third couple from Sindhi literature fraternity to be honored with Sahitya Academy Award for writing in Sindhi language.
He died on 06 April 2007.