Gandhinagar: Harshad Trivedi has been elected as the new President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Trivedi replaces outgoing President Prakash N Shah. Trivedi has won the election against two rival candidates. The election for the post of president and also for 40 members of central committee takes place ever three years. Against over 5,000 voters, only little over 1,000 voters cast their votes in this election. Trivedi, a poet, critic and author is from Gujarat Sahitya Academy background. He has ...Read More

Vadodara: Renown Gujarati poet Khalil Dhantejvi (Khalil Ismailbhai Makrani) passed away today in Vadodara. He was 86 due to breathing related issues. Born in Dhantej village of Vadodara district in 1935, Khalil Dhantejvi was Gujarati and Urdu Ghazalkar and poet. He was conferred with Kalapi puraskar and Vali Gujarat Ghazal puraskar. He was also columnist in leading Gujarati daily. DeshGujarat Read More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendrabhai Modi today tweeted his poetry on Uttarayan in Gujarati language. The poetry has been titled as Occasion in sky and the sky in eyes. આભમાં અવસર અને આંખમાં જ અંબર pic.twitter.com/wKcKwAl1W4— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 14, 2021 Read More

Ahmedabad: Prakash N Shah has been declared victorious in the election of the post of President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Shah got 562 of 1292 votes. Other candidates Harshad Trivedi and Harikrushna Pathak got 533 and 197 votes respectively. Out of total 1337 vote, 45 were declared invalid. Shah will be on this post for three years. He will replace outgoing president Sitanshi Yashaschandra. Counting of votes for election of members and central committee will take place on October 25. DeshGuj...Read More

Surat: Veteran political columnist Nagindas Sanghvi passed away today at the age of 100 due to acute asthma attack. Sangvi was conferred Padma Shri in year 2019. 1920 born Sanghavi passed Masters in Bombay University in year 1947. He started his teaching career (1951–80) at Bhavan's College, Andheri. He later moved to Ruparel College, Mahim and Mithibai College, Vile Parle teaching political science. His Books: Gujarat: A Political Analysis; (1996) Centre for Social Studies ...Read More

New Delhi: Noted Gujarati litterateur Ratilala Borisagar has been selected for prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for this year. The Executive Committee of the Akademi led by its chairman Dr Chandrashekar Kambar announced the names of the winners of the prestigious prize for 23 languages including Gujarati here today. Borisagar, born in Savarkundala in Amreli district in Saurashtra region of Gujarat on August 31 , 1938, has been selected for his essay '.Mojma Revu Re' . The decis...Read More

Ahmedabad: Gujarat University has decided to award D.Litt (doctorate) to veteran Gujarati litterateur Raghuvir Chaudhary, Bochasanvasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha(BAPS) saint Brahmviharidas, Bharatiya Akhada Parishad chief Swami Parmatmanand Saraswati, veteran columnist, author and litterateur Gunvant Shah, senior journalist and Gujarat Sahitya Academy chief Vishnu Pandya, senior lawyer Sudhir Nanavati and poet Ankit Trivedi. This decision was taken in syndicate meeting of Gujarat University a...Read More

Ahmedabad: Well known Gujarati litterateur Bakulbhai Bakshi today died at his resident here. He was 76. According to family members Bakshi, who was born and brought up in Kolkata but later settled in Gujarat and had written many books in Gujarati, suffered a heart attack this morning. Bakhsi, a former IRS officer who retired from a top post in customs department in February 2003 had received president medal for his writings. He was younger brother of two well known li...Read More

Ahmedabad: Veteran humor writer, author, orator, columnist Vinod Bhatt passed away today He was ailing for some time and under the treatment. He took last breath at 11.05 am today. His body will be donated to medical college at 5.00 pm today. One of most popular persons in Gujarati literature world, Vinodbhai was 80-year old. He has given over 20 books. Born on 14 January 1938 at Nandol near Dahegam in Audichya Brahmin family, Vinodbhai graduated from HL Commerce college in Ahmedabad in 1961 and...Read More