Gulfam, born Jahangir Nasharvanji Patel alias Pestonji, was a Gujarati humour writer and journalist from Bombay, India.

[1] Gulfam was born on 14 July 1861 in Parsi Patel family living in a large and one of the oldest houses in Fort area of Bombay which was used as a court and jail during Portuguese rule in city.

His writing used to publish in several magazines and newspapers like Kaiser-e-Hind, Fursad, Gyanvardhak, Laxmi, Akhbar-e-Sodagar, Gapsap, Jam-e-Jamshed and Bombay Samachar.

[1] In 1909, Firozshah Jahangir Marzban, the founder of Jam-e-Jamshed, had written in introduction of his book Khen Kotak, "The writer of nearly 50 stories, several original anecdotes and original plays, column writer in half-dozen newspapers and quarter-less-in-dozen magazines, specialist of jokes and sketches, person who swam across an ocean of poetry and short stories, favourite of goddess of writing; Jahangir Patel".

Sugandhma Sado and Mote Gharna Bai Saheb are suspense stories based on Parsi householder life.

English writer H. Rider Haggard had written two popular novels; She: A History of Adventure and Ayesha which were translated by him as Mashukno Ijaro.