A.J. Uttam - Freedom Fighter and an outstanding writer, critic, research scholar, and journalist.
12 videos • 28 views • by Sindhi Sangat Shri A. J. Uttam was an outstanding writer, critic, research scholar, journalist, very well known for consistent, well studied and documented opinion. In fact, he was called the walking, talking and living encyclopedia of Sindhi literature. He was continuously writing literature from 1941 till his last day in 2005. Not only that, but he was always in the forefront of movement for recognition of Sindhi Language by Government and encouragement of new writers and cultural workers through Naeen Duniya Monthly, Sindhu Dhara Weekly, Sindhu Samachar and Sindhu Sansar Dailies as an Editor and as part of Akhil Bharat Sindhi Boli Ain Sahit Sabha of which he was the Founder General Secretary from 1959 to 1963. In fact, he was the only writer who resigned and sacrificed his Bombay Govt. job in 1960 (on bifurcation into Maharashtra and Gujrat) instead of accepting a transfer to Gujrat in order to continue to work for Sindhi language, literature and culture unhindered. Shri A. J. Uttam (or Assandas Jethanand Uttamchandani) was born on 16th December 1923 in Hyderabad - Sind (now in Pakistan).