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Leading film directors include Govind Nihalani (“Aakrosh”), Raj Sippy, Ramesh<br />
Sippy, Kumar Shahani. Leading Sindhi cine artists include Sudhir, Mach Mohan,<br />
Raj Kiran (Mahtani) Asrani, Sheila Ramani, Babita, Sadhana.<br />
In the religious field, Dada Jashan Vaswani, Sant Lila Shah, Holy Guru Nanak<br />
Mission, Dada Chellaram’s “Nij Thanw”, Brahmakumaris, and several other<br />
organisations are so many beacons of spiritual light. The week-long celebrations<br />
at Majnuka-Tilla in Delhi are a new high in Sindhi religious consciousness<br />
In the field of literature, Kalyan Advani, M. N. Malkani Lekhraj Aziz, Tirath<br />
Basant, Ram Punjwani Haru Sadarangani, Popati Hiranandani, Gobind Malhi,<br />
Narayan Shyam and several others have been duly honoured by the Sahitya<br />
Akademi.<br />
In Sindh, Pokardas served Sindhi literature with his innumerable publications.<br />
After Partition, H.G. Mirchandani of India Book House has, through Amar<br />
Chitra Katha, introduced a whole new generation to the glories of Indian history<br />
and culture.<br />
Krishna Kripalani has presided over Sahitya Akademi and he now guides the<br />
National Book Trust.<br />
Bulo Rani, Shanti Hiranand, C.H. Atma, Master Chander,Kamla Keswani,<br />
Bhagwanti Nawani, Deepika Kripalani, Chainani Sisters and Hoondraj<br />
‘Dukhayal’ have put new life in Sindhi music.<br />
In politics, while Acharya Kripalani was a colossus, Jairamdas served with<br />
distinction as member of Parliament, cabinet minister and governor. L.K. Advani<br />
shone not only as minister for Information and broadcasting, he is in the front<br />
rank of Indian politics. Hashu Advani occupies a similar position in Maharashtra.<br />
Sucheta Kirpalani, Dr. Choithram, Prof. N.R. Malkani, Ram Jethmalani, Krishna<br />
Kripalani have made their name in Parliament. And Bhanu Kumar Shastri<br />
stormed Sukhadia’s citadel in Udaipur to enter the Lok Sabha with a bang in<br />
1977.<br />
Oscar Wilde has said that all of us have five senses, but that unless we have the<br />
sixth sense to make money, we cannot make good use of the other five senses.<br />
The Sindhis have acted very well on this adage.<br />
They are not very prominent in the services. This could be due to discrimination<br />
--- or due to the feeling that there is no money even in the highest services.<br />
However, they have partly made up for this by the universality of literacy. A<br />
Sindhi who cannot read and write will be hard to find. Also most of them are not<br />
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