Harish Vaswani

Harish Hansraj Vaswani (Sindhi:ھريش ھنسراج واسواڻي) (22 November 1940 – 13 April 2013) was a Sindhi writer, poet and critic. and academic. He was a professor of Political Science and English literature. He is known as a pioneer of new Sindhi poetry and he was influential writer of Sindhi literature. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi award in 1987. Harish Vaswani was born in November 1940 in Lor Ilaayi in hill area of Baluchistan (now in Pakistan) to Vaswani family. His family, with his four siblings, fled to India after the Partition of India in 1947. They reached Saurashtra State (now part of Gujarat) by sea as refugees. They faced numerous hardships and had to live in refugee camps. His school education was frequently interrupted as the family moved from one town to another until it settled temporarily in Bantwa in Saurashtra.