Manilal Desai

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Manilal Desai
Born(1939-07-19)19 July 1939
Gorgam (now in Valsad district, Gujarat)
Died4 May 1966(1966-05-04) (aged 26)
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Occupationpoet
Language Gujarati
Nationality Indian
Education Master of Arts
PeriodModern Gujarati literature
Genres geet, ghazal, metrical and non-metrical poetry
Notable worksRaneri (1968; posthumously)

Manilal Bhagwanji Desai (1939-1966) was a Gujarati poet from India.

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Life

He was born in Gorgam (now in Valsad district, Gujarat) on 19 July 1939. He completed his BA with Gujarati and MA with Sanskrit in Mumbai and served as a lecturer in Gujarati at Zhunzhunwala College, Ghatkopar, Mumbai. He died at early age of 26 in Ahmedabad on 4 May 1966. [1]

Works

He was experimentalist writer. [2] He was associated with little magazine movement and modernist movement in Gujarati.

His collection Raneri (1968), edited by Jayant Parekh, was published posthumously. It includes geet, ghazal, metrical and non-metrical poetry as well as prose poetry. Darkness is recurring theme in his poetry. Suresh Dalal has called him "the poet of colour, rhythm and movement of darkness". He was modernist in his approach. Gandhijina Shishyo was his first work. His "Umbare Ubhi Sambharu Re Bol Valamna" (Gujarati : ઉંબરે ઊભી સાંભરું રે બોલ વાલમના) is very popular song across Gujarat. This song depicts a rural woman waiting for and thus remembering her husband in her everyday deeds. [1] [3]

In 2018, Gujarati Vishwakosh Trust published his biography entitled Bol Valamna, written by Manilal H. Patel. [4]

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References

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