Mahendrasinh Parmar

Writer, Professor, Literary public reader

Speaker

Gujarati writer and Professor from Gujarat, India. His works includes Polytechnic (2016) and Rakhdu no Kagal (2016). He has also written plays.

He completed his Master of Arts in Gujarati literature from Bhavnagar University and received Ph.D from same University.

Since 2002, his short stories appeared in various collection of Gujarati short stories. He has done numerous shows of public reading of literary works under the title Vachikam. His critical works published as Pratham in 2009. Polytechnic (2016) is a short story collection while Rakhdu no Kagal (2016) is a collection of his personal essays. He wrote several plays.

His book “Polytechnic” was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award (2020).

On the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore's 150th anniversary, he has participated in the programs of Sahitya Akademi, Delhi as a representative of Gujarati literature in the Indian Writers' meeting held at Santiniketan. He has also visited Goa, Imphal, Shantiniketan, Assam as a representative of Gujarati literature.

Dalpatram’s drama “Mithyabhiman” was played all over the state, Mumbai and Kolkata.