Jhaverchand Meghani
Jhaverchand Meghani (Gujarati: ઝવેરચંદ મેઘાણી; August 28, 1896 – March 9, 1947) was a noted poet, litterateur, social reformer and freedom fighter from Gujarat. He is a well known name in the field of Gujarati literature. He was born in Chotila. Mahatma Gandhi spontaneously gave him the title of Raashtreeya Shaayar (National Poet).[1] Besides this he received many awards like Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak and Mahida Paaritoshik in literature. He authored more than 100 books. His first book was a translation work of Rabindranath Tagore's ballad Kathaa-u-Kaahinee titled Kurbani Ni Katha (Stories of martyrdom) which was first published in 1922. He contributed widely to Gujarati folk literature. He went from village to village in search of folk-lo
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ધ રામબાઈ નવલકથામાંથી લીધેલ પરિચય:
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પ્રકાશકે ખુબ કહ્યું કે મારા વિશે હું વિસ્તારથી પરિચય લખી આપું. આ આત્મવૃત લખવામાં અહીં આવતાં ‘હું, મારું, મારા’ જેવાં સ્વ-કેન્દ્રી શબ્દોના અતિરેક બદલ માફી ચાહું છું:
હું વિશ્વમાનવ, નોર્થપોલ, અને ધ રામબાઈ નવલકથાઓનો વાર્તાકાર છું.
મારો જન્મ ગુજરાતના અમરેલી જીલ્લાના સરંભડા નામના ગામે વર્ષ 1991માં ખેડૂત પરિવારમાં થયો. હું B.tech Electrical ભણ્યો. એન્જીનીયરીંગ છોડીને અંતે વાર્તા-સર્જક થયો. હાલ બેંગ્લોર રહું છું. વિશ્વમાનવ (2014), નોર્થપોલ (2018), ધ રામબાઈ (2020) નવલકથાઓ બાદ હાલ નવી નવલકથા લખી રહ્યો છું.
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Harkisan Mehta
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Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
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Raam Mori
રામ મોરી એ ગુજરાતના ટૂંકી વાર્તા લેખક, પટકથા લેખક અને કટારલેખક છે, જેઓ મુખ્યત્વે સૌરાષ્ટ્રના ગ્રામીણ જીવનને દર્શાવતી ટૂંકી વાર્તાઓ માટે જાણીતા છે.
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ભાવગર જિલ્લાના પાલીતાણા તાલુકાના લાખાવાડ ગામમાં એક ખેડૂત પરિવારમાં જન્મ.. તેમણે ફેબ્રિકેશન એન્જિનિયરિંગમાં પોતાનો અભ્યાસ પૂરો કર્યો છે. તેમણે 17 વર્ષની ઉંમરે ટૂંકી વાર્તાઓ લખવાનું શરૂ કર્યું. તેમની વાર્તાઓ ‘શબ્દસૃષ્ટિ’, ‘નવનીત સમર્પણ’, ‘એતદ્’,’ તથાપિ’ અને ‘શબ્દસર’ જેવા ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યિક સામાયિકોમાં પ્રકાશિત થઈ છે.
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Jitesh Donga
ધ રામબાઈ નવલકથામાંથી લીધેલ પરિચય:
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પ્રકાશકે ખુબ કહ્યું કે મારા વિશે હું વિસ્તારથી પરિચય લખી આપું. આ આત્મવૃત લખવામાં અહીં આવતાં ‘હું, મારું, મારા’ જેવાં સ્વ-કેન્દ્રી શબ્દોના અતિરેક બદલ માફી ચાહું છું:
હું વિશ્વમાનવ, નોર્થપોલ, અને ધ રામબાઈ નવલકથાઓનો વાર્તાકાર છું.
મારો જન્મ ગુજરાતના અમરેલી જીલ્લાના સરંભડા નામના ગામે વર્ષ 1991માં ખેડૂત પરિવારમાં થયો. હું B.tech Electrical ભણ્યો. એન્જીનીયરીંગ છોડીને અંતે વાર્તા-સર્જક થયો. હાલ બેંગ્લોર રહું છું. વિશ્વમાનવ (2014), નોર્થપોલ (2018), ધ રામબાઈ (2020) નવલકથાઓ બાદ હાલ નવી નવલકથા લખી રહ્યો છું.
મને અડદની દાળ અને બાજરાના રોટલાં ખુબ ભાવે! સવારનો કૂમળો તડકો, સાંજનો ઢળતો સૂરજ, અને રાત્રીનું અગોચર આકાશ ખુબ પ્રિય. વરસાદ તો એટલો પ્રિય કે નવલકથાઓમાં એ પાત્ર હોય છે. નદી-કિનારે, દરિયે, ખેતરે, કે જંગલોમાં જાત -
Sharad Thakar
Dr. Sharad Thakar is Gujarati Author. Writing “રણમાં ખીલ્યું ગુલાબ” since 1993 and “ ડૉક્ટર ની ડાયરી” since 1995 in leading Gujarati Daily New Paper. Author of 28 books, Recipient of many state level and national awards for literary work. Professionally a Gynaecologist at Ahmedabad.
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Amritlal Vegad
Amritlal Vegad was a noted Gujarati and Hindi language writer and painter.
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Raam Mori
રામ મોરી એ ગુજરાતના ટૂંકી વાર્તા લેખક, પટકથા લેખક અને કટારલેખક છે, જેઓ મુખ્યત્વે સૌરાષ્ટ્રના ગ્રામીણ જીવનને દર્શાવતી ટૂંકી વાર્તાઓ માટે જાણીતા છે.
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ભાવગર જિલ્લાના પાલીતાણા તાલુકાના લાખાવાડ ગામમાં એક ખેડૂત પરિવારમાં જન્મ.. તેમણે ફેબ્રિકેશન એન્જિનિયરિંગમાં પોતાનો અભ્યાસ પૂરો કર્યો છે. તેમણે 17 વર્ષની ઉંમરે ટૂંકી વાર્તાઓ લખવાનું શરૂ કર્યું. તેમની વાર્તાઓ ‘શબ્દસૃષ્ટિ’, ‘નવનીત સમર્પણ’, ‘એતદ્’,’ તથાપિ’ અને ‘શબ્દસર’ જેવા ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યિક સામાયિકોમાં પ્રકાશિત થઈ છે.
તેમણે પહેલા TV9 ગુજરાત સાથે કામ કર્યું અને પછી કલર્સ ગુજરાતીમાં જોડાયા. તેઓ વિજયગીરી ફિલ્મસ્ સાથે પણ કામ કરે છે. તેમણે દિવ્ય ભાસ્કરમાં સાપ્તાહિક કલમ ‘મુકામ વાર્તા’ અને મુંબઇ સમાચારમાં ‘ધ કન્ફેશન બોક્સ’ લખી હતી. તેમણે ગુજરાતી મેગેઝિન ‘કોકટેલ જિંદગી’ અને ‘#We’, ફુલછાબમાં ‘લવ યુ જિંદગી’ જે -
Kakasaheb Kalelkar
Kalelkar was born in Satara on 1 December 1885. He was native of Kaleli village near Sawantwadi in Maharashtra which gave his surname Kalelkar. He matriculated in 1903 and completed B. A. in Philosophy from Fergusson College, Pune in 1907. He appeared in the first year examination of LL.B. and joined Ganesh Vidyalaya in Belgaum in 1908. He worked for a while on the editorial staff of a nationalistic Marathi daily named Rashtramat, and then as a teacher at a school named Ganganath Vidyalaya in Baroda in 1910. Within a few years, the British government forcibly closed down the school because of its nationalistic spirit in 1912. He traveled to Himalaya on foot and later joined Acharya Kripalani in visit to Burma (Myanmar) in 1913. He met Mahat
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