Atta Muhammad Bhanbhro

Bhanbhro died in Bachal Bhanbhro village of Hingorja, Khairpur, Pakistan near village Mothparja on 3 June 2020. His will was revealed after his death which made Atta Muhammad Bhanbhro a topic of discussion and it also went viral on social media. According to his will, he is buried upside down so that he should continue to kiss his motherland Sindh until he himself is not decomposed into the sand. The second thing he said in his will was, his grave should be locked with chains and a banner should be pasted on this grave that a slave is buried here. The chains should not be opened until the Sindh is given freedom. The will went viral with the title "his lips kissed the soil of Sindh".

He was the receipent of the Madar-i-Watan award given by the Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party, a left-wing Pakistani political party. During Pervez Musharraf's regime, he was nominated for the Pride of Performance award by Asif Ali Zardari, but he refused to accept it in protest of son's death who was abducted by unknown persons, and found dead with torture marks on his body. In 2004, he was awarded Latif Award in recognition of his work on Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, a Sindhi Philosopher, scholar, saint, and poet.

In 1980, he translated Iranian children’s literature and Russian literature into English language. In 1989 after residing in Hyderabad, he translated a book titled Sindh Ja Qadeem Asaar which was written on Sindh’s heritage. He then continued working as a translator and translated around one hundred books into Sindhi language, including Sindhu Likhat Ayein Boli, Sikandar Ji Kaah and Sindh Ji Tareekh Moarukhan Ji Zubani.

Between 1967 and 1968, Bhambhro started publishing a rebellious magazine called Hoshu which was later banned by the government of Pakistan in 1974 under the Defence law of Pakistan. After restrictions were imposed on the magazine, the pieces were later published in several other magazines, and the printing press responsible for publishing the magazine's remained work was also seized by the authorities and he went underground while the publisher and his uncle were arrested following the ban.

Atta Muhammad Bhanbhro (1 February 1936 – 3 June 2020) also spelled as Atta Mohammad Bhambhro was a Pakistani writer, translator, poet, historian, lawyer, and the founder of Hoshu, a banned rebellious magazine. He wrote more than four hundred books on Sindhi literature, history including translations and civilization besides contributing to indus script through his writings. He was a wide studied man who claimed to read indus script found in moen jo daro but his research was not completed by him due to poority and government's little attention . Sometimes, he is referred to as archaeologist for his archaeological contribution excavated in Sindh.