Ram Jawhrani

Shri Ram Jawhrani, Chairman of Global Sindhi Council is the front runner of the most famous and popular Sindhis of post independent era. The multifaceted personality Ram Jawhrani is well known to every sindhi of world for his fight against social evils, like Dowry and Drug Abuse, of the sindhi community in association of his organization, Sahyog Foundation.

Born on 07 December 1947 at Ladkana Sindh, Ram Jawhrani at very early age observed that in the Sindhi community there is lack of awareness towards Art, Culture and Literature. He also experiences that there is huge communication gap between Sindhi and other local communities. To overcome this, he started periodical Magazine ‘Sahyog Times’ in English at Mumbai, and worked as the editor along with writing many awaking articles. By this he provided scope to well-known Sindhi and non-Sindhi writers.

In very short span of time awareness towards the community problems, desire to do something significant for the suffering and under privileged, his courage, determination and sincerity has made Ram Jawhrani inspiration for the younger Sindhi generations. Sindhi history will never forget his contribution towards preserving Sindhi cultural and social heritage as being the interviewer of a program Sindhi Sarvech, being telecast on Door darshan Ram Jawhrani has talked with more than 100 eminent Sindhi Personalities, including famous and well-known Sindhi people like L. K. Advani, Ram Jethmalani, Dr. Suresh Advani, Dr. Indira Hinduja, Govind Nihalani and former Admiral R. H. Tahiliani, in 104 episodes of the program.

His another significant contribution towards his efforts for saving Sindhi language reflects from being the instrumental behind the singing of Sindhi songs by the famous singers like Mahindra Kapoor, Anup Jalota, Kavita Krishnamoorthy, Rajendra Nina Mehta, Udit Narayan, Sadhna Sargam and many others from the Hindi film industry.

Ram Jawhrani established Sahyog Foundation [in Mumbai in 1988] to make his fight against social evils, like Dowry and Drug Abuse more effective. There are many widows in the society who are self-employed due to his efforts as selfless Ram Jawhrani succeeded in raising funds for the free distribution of sewing machines among this section of the society. A humble, soft spoken and pious person Ram Jawhrani is the working force behind the arrangement of many free health check camps in Mumbai by the Sahyog Foundation beside honouring eminent personalities of the society personalities for their contribution to the promotion of Art, Culture and National Integration .

Late Sunil Datta was used to call Ram Jawhrani as the “Miracle Man Of Mumbai”, where as in the views of former Union Law Minister Shri Ram Jethmalani he is the Cultural Ambassador of Sindhi Community. To Sudha Chandran, Ram Jawhrani is the person with desire of intensifying efforts for removing the word ‘handicapped’ from the society beside working hard for uplifting life of deprived class of community.

Multifaceted sindhi personality Ram Jawhrani is also associated with telefilm “Dan Veer” telecasted at Door darshan, as the Story writer. “Nyani Nimani ” is another telefilm with massage about the daughter is in the making and written by him. He is most notable speaker among the Sindhis of modern times who always stress hard for increasing voice culture to safeguard Sindhi Language and preserve rich cultural and social heritage of Sindhi Community.