Narmad is considered to be the founder of modern Gujarati literature. He introduced many creative forms of writing to the Gujarati language, including pioneering works in autobiography, poetry, lexicography, historical plays and folk literature research. He was an outspoken journalist and pamphleteer.
Dr. Vipul Purohit is a tenured professor of Gujarati. He is working as an Associate Professor in the Postgraduate Department of Gujarati at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar. In his two-decade teaching career, more than forty review articles have been published in prestigious Gujarati language journals.
His research work titled 'Gujarati Lalit Nibandhan: Swaroop Ane Samriddhi' (2010) has been published. In addition, review books titled 'Bhavabim' (2018) and 'Sachet as' (2018) have been published. He has also served as a Gujarati language expert in the Gujarati-Hindi Bolikosh prepared by the Central Hindi Institute, Agra. Under his guidance, three students have completed their Ph.D. and 10 students have completed their M.Phil. Essay, poetry, and fiction are his main areas of interest and study.
He was active in the planning and coordination of student-oriented literary study camps organized with the help of Gujarat Sahitya Akademi at Bhavnagar University. He has also been working as a coordinator in the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi-inspired-organized student-centered reading-study camps for two years. 'Natyavartul', an initiative of Bhavnagar, has played the role of Raghnath Bhatt as an actor in the play 'Mithyabhimaan' written by Kavishri Dalpatram and directed by Dr. Mahendrasinh Parmar in experiments in many cities like Bhavnagar, Surat, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Calcutta, Vadodara, Mahuva(Asmitaparva), Surendranagar. Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji has also done successful work as a conductor of cultural activities of Bhavnagar University. He is known not only in Bhavnagar but also throughout Gujarat as a student-loving professor.
