Hari Motwani

Hari Narayan Singh Motwani who in the Sindhi literary world is more famous as Hari Motwani was born on 30 November 1929 at Larkana Sindh is among those included on list of Academy Award winners given by Sindhi Sahitya Academy annually. He was awarded this award in 1995 for his novel “Ajho”. 

Due to partition of country, he could not continue his education as just before the partition he came to India to meet with relative and was not able to return back to his birth place it has created immense love for Sindh in his heart. He tried to satisfy this thirst by visiting regularly to Sindh from 1986 to 2005 and work as the bridge between the Sindhi writers, poets of Sindh and India.

These were his friends from the literature world on whose suggestion he started business of publication and even being very moderately educated he started Sindhi Literary Magazine “Koonj” which he edited many years. He started writing short stories and after wards also wrote few Sindhi Novels. In the 1970 he has produced Sindhi Film “Ho Jamalo” and in 1998 has worked as the member of Advisory Board of Sindhi Sahitya Academy.

This was the end of April 2006 when he got heart attack, hospitalization of few days and efforts of Doctors fail to save his life and he expired on 07 May 2006. As par his will a part of his mortal remains was immersed into holly river Ganga and other to river Sindhu at Kotri Sindh [ on 5 July 2007].