Jawahar Bakshi
Jawahar Ravirai Bakshi is a Gujarati poet from Gujarat, India.
Biography
Jawahar Bakshi was born on 19 February 1947 in Junagadh to Nilavati and Ravirai Bakshi. She completed his schooling from Swami Vivekanand Vinay Mandir. He completed Bachelor of Commerce from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1964 and became a chartered accountant.[1][2]
Bakshi wrote his first ghazal in 1959 and had written more than 700 ghazals. His ghazals explore spirituality. Tarapanana Shaherma (1999) and are Parpotana Killa (2012) his ghazal collections having 108 and 11 ghazals respectively. He has received prizes from Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and Gujarat Sahitya Akademi. He is awarded Narmad Suvarna Chandrak in 1998. He is also awarded Kalapi Award for his ghazals in 2006.[1][2] He was awarded the Kavishwar Dalpatram Award for 2019.[3]
Personal life
Bakshi married Daksha and they has a daughter named Pooja.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b Brahmabhatt, Prasad (2010). અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ - આધુનિક અને અનુઆધુનિક યુગ [History of Modern Gujarati Literature – Modern and Postmodern Era] (in Gujarati). Ahmedabad: Parshwa Publication. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-93-5108-247-7.
- ^ a b c "જવાહર બક્ષીનો પરિચય : આદિકવિ નરસિંહ મહેતાના વંશજ , સફળ કવિ - ગઝલકાર અને આધ્યાત્મિક ગુરુ". DailyHunt. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^ "2019 અને 2020ના કવિશ્વર દલપતરામ એવોર્ડ જાહેર". Gujarati News, News in Gujarati – ગુજરાત સમાચાર | દિવ્ય ભાસ્કર (in Gujarati). 23 December 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
External links
- Jawahar Bakshi on GujLit
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