James Ramlall, also known as Bhai (26 January 1935 – 19 December 2018), was a Surinamese poet.

Later he went on to study Indian philosophy and religion, and wrote his doctoral thesis on "The Problem of Being in Heidegger and Sankara".

[3] Bhai wrote poetry mainly in Dutch, but some was in Hindi, which was published in the magazine Soela.

[4] The Dutch work was bundled into Vindu (Hindi for: Secret, 1982) from which the concrete-imaging of his earlier poetry completely disappeared.

[3] Since then he turned to poetry, although he sporadically wrote for De Ware Tijd Literair.