Harish Vaswani

Harish Vaswani was famous for portraying nature in the word format through his poetry. His literary journey was started as story writer with 1962 published story “Muskrahat” published in Nayeen Duniya, the magazine in which his first poetry “Sabhyta” was also published very shortly after the story.
“Chalih – Chhahatar” [40-76] the title of the first poetry book of Harish Vaswani is enough to explain how creative and unique was this genius sindhi writer as he was born in 1940 so to remind people, he used his birth year in the title. Even his book for which he was honored with all important literary award “Academy Award” of Sindhi Sahitya Academy in the year 1987, was titled “Chalih – Chourasi” [40-84].
In the own words of Professor Harish Vaswani literary creative work is actually the back journey within our self when we start feeling about true ourselves an outburst of spontaneous emotions comes out and often world name it as poetry. If we look at his life Harish started his literary life by presenting a very strong criticism paper on famous Hindi poet Jaishankar Prasad, when he was student of B.A. After being an established poet and writer, this Criticism and Analysis become yet another strong hold for writings of Harish Vaswani.
Besides the poetry and story writing Harish Vaswani was equally master of Literary Criticism and analysis and wrote many critical essays. His book Chalih – Chourasi is collection of ten such essays, out of which four essays are on Stories, three on poetry, two on novels and one essay is on plays. This is enough proof for the multi skilled personality of Harish Vaswani. The two novels selected by him as his choice of best Sindhi Novel written in India, in post independent era were of the most popular Sindhi writers, “Pyar Ji Pyas” written by legendry Gobind Malhi and “Muhinji Atma Jo Mout” by Lal Pushp both Academy Award winners.

Harish Hansraj Vaswani was born on the 22 November 1940 at Lor Ilaayi a hilly area in Baluchistan. After shifting to India till 1959 his family was roaming in search of suitable business place. The family tries to settle at Junagarh, Agra, Ajmer, Delhi and few other cities and finally decided in favour of Adipur Gandhidham. At the time of shifting to India Harish was of eight years. His painful experiences of shifting due to partition and experience generated from this nomadic life in India, proved fuel for his literary creations. He expired on 13 April 2013.
Just to get glimpses of geniuses of Harish Vaswani, strong support and creator of news waves in Sindhi Poetry and Sindhi Story writing, look at the topics of various eminent personalities during the Harish Vaswani Symposium organized by Sahitya Academy.
Shefali Vasudev: My Father, My Friend: Creative writer and person
Amit Bodoni: Bipolar element in genius personality of Harish Vaswani
Vasudev Mohi: Harish Vaswani’s poetry an appreciation
Kirti Khatri: Harish Vaswani as Columnist
Dr. Kamla Goklani: Short Stories of Harish Vaswani
Dr. Vimmi Sadarangani: Dhara Column
Mohan Himthani: Laboratory test of poetry by Harish Vaswani
Surely his death has created a kind of vacuum in the literary criticism and new Sindhi poetry areas of Sindhi literature.