Kalyan Bulchand Advani

Kalyan Bulchand Advani (Sindhi: ڪلياڻ ٻولچند آڏواڻي) (10 December 1911 - 17 March 1994) was an Indian poet, critic, and scholar of Sindhi literature. He compiled an edition of the Shah Jo Risalo in 1958 and translated Kalidas’s work Shakuntala in Sindhi. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by the Government of India in 1968. Kalyan Advani was born on 10 December 1911 at Hyderabad, Sindh. After the partition of the subcontinent, he migrated to India in 1948 and joined Jai Hind College Bombay (now Mumbai). There, he retired as a Professor of English and Persian in 1976. Kalyan Advani contributed articles to the college magazine Phuleli. After joining as a lecturer, he started a magazine Latifi Bari, named after the saint and poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. He regularly contributed to the literary magazines Sindhu, Latifi Bari, and others.