Jagdish Joshi (poet)

Jagdish Joshi
Born Jagdish Ramkrishna Joshi
(1932-10-09)9 October 1932
Mumbai, India
Died 21 September 1978(1978-09-21) (aged 45)
Mumbai
Occupation Poet and translator
Language Gujarati
Nationality Indian
Alma mater
Period modern Gujarati literature
Genre free verse, ghazal, Geet
Notable works Vamal Na Van (1976)
Notable awards
Spouse Anila Badheka
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Jagdish Ramkrishna Joshi (1932-1978) was a Gujarati language poet and translator from India. He received a posthumous Sahitya Akademi Award in 1979 for his collection of poems, Vamal Na Van.

Life

Joshi was born on 9 October 1932 in Bombay (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) to Annapurna and Ramakrishna Joshi. He matriculated in 1949 and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Gujarati and Sanskrit in 1953 from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He completed an M.D. in Pedagogy in 1955 from Stanford University. He served as a principal of Bazar Gate High School, Mumbai from 1957 to 1960. He also served as a member of the educational committee and The Editorial Board of the Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, Pune, from 1965 to 1977. Later, he served as a treasurer of the Bombay Association of Hades and Secondary School, as a vice-president in 1969, and as a president in 1970. He was a senate member of the University of Bombay from 1969 to 1975. From 1974 to 1978, he served as a member of the Board of Studies in Gujarati at SNDT Women's University.[1][2]

Joshi married Anila Devshankar Badheka in 1953. Their first daughter, Sandhya, was born in 1954 in Stanford, and their second daughter, Aparna, was born in 1960 in Ahmedabad. Their son, Abhijit was born in 1968 in Mumbai.

Joshi fell into a coma owing to a cerebral hemorrhage on the midnight of 31 August 1978 and died on 21 September 1978 in Mumbai.[1]

Works

Aakash, his first collection of poems, was published in 1972, followed by Vamal Na Van (1976) and Monta Collage (1979; posthumous). The book Vamal Na Van set a new trend in experimental Gujarati poems. The central emotion in his poems is pathos, which is depicted here with rural milieu and colloquial style. In his non-metrical poems, he used rhythmical diction.[3] In all, Joshi wrote 114 poems: 57 geets, 38 non-metrical poems, 14 ghazals, and 5 metrical poems. Ek Hati Sarvakalin Varta is one critically acclaimed poem from this collection.[4][2]

Joshi also co-edited some works including: Vartani Pankhe (1972), Vartani Moj (3 Vol.; 1972), Hu To Nitya Pravasi (1973), Varta Re Varta (3 Vol.; 1973) and Sulabh Samoohjivan (3 Vol.; 1974). In 1973, he started to publish the translation of Understanding Poetry, a work by British writer James Reeves, titling it Kavitani Gatagam in the Gujarati poetry journal Kavita (edited by Suresh Dalal). He translated poems from various languages into Gujarati, most of which are published in Kavita, Sanskruti and Kavyavishwa. Two of his most famous translations are Marathi Kavita - Gres (1978) and Suryaghatikayantra (1981, posthumous). His poetry reviews were published in Ekantni Sabha (1978; posthumous). Dharo Ke Ek Sanje Aapne Malya, a volume of his complete poetry edited by Suresh Dalal, was published in 1998.[1][2]

Awards

He was awarded the Uma-Snehrashmi Prize (1976-1977) and Sahitya Akademi Award (1979) for his book Vamal Na Van. He also received the Mahakavi Nhanalal Prize in 1977 for the same book.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dalal, Suresh, ed. (23 August 2003). સ્મૃતિપર્વ: જગદીશ જોષી-વિશેષ [Selection From The Literary Works of Jagdish Joshi] (in Gujarati). Mumbai: Image Publication Pvt. Ltd. pp. 316–317. ISBN 81-7997-073-6.
  2. 1 2 3 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. 110–112. ISBN 978-93-5108-247-7.
  3. ↑ Mohan Lal (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 4486. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  4. 1 2 "જગદીશ જોશી" [Jagdish Joshi]. Gujarati Sahitya Parishad (in Gujarati). Retrieved 2017-09-05.
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