Nagindas Narandas Parekh was a Gujarati language critic, editor and translator from India.
20 Facts About Nagindas Parekh
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Nagindas Parekh is known by his pen name, Granthkeet.
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Nagindas Parekh was born on 8 August 1903 in the city of Bulsar, Bombay Presidency, British India.
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Nagindas Parekh completed his primary and secondary education in Valsad and graduated from Gujarat Vidyapith university in 1921.
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Nagindas Parekh studied Bengali and the literature of Rabindranath Tagore under Kshitimohan Sen, and then he taught briefly at Gujarat Vidyapith in 1926.
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Nagindas Parekh worked with the Navajivan Trust from 1944 to 1947, and later, he taught at B J Vidyabhavan run by the Gujarat Vidhya Sabha.
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Nagindas Parekh worked as a professor from 1955 to 1969 at H K Arts College in Ahmedabad.
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Nagindas Parekh contributed chiefly in the fields of criticism, biography, editing and translation.
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Nagindas Parekh wrote the biographies of Navalram, Mahadev Desai, Premanand, and Gandhiji.
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Nagindas Parekh edited five works of Mahadev Desai, Vachanmala.
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Nagindas Parekh edited Vishesh Vachanmala, Vartalahari, and Sahitya Pathavali.
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Nagindas Parekh heavily contributed to the field of literature by translating many famous works into Gujarati, including several Bengali stories.
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Nagindas Parekh co-translated some more works of Tagore: Charitryapuja, Ekotershati, Ravindra Nibandhmala -1, and Ravindranathna Natako -1.
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Nagindas Parekh translated several works of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay including, Pallisamaj, Chandranath, and Parineeta.
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Nagindas Parekh translated two critical works of Abu Sayeed Ayyub: Kavyama Aadhunikta and Panthjanana Sakha.
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Nagindas Parekh translated several English works including, Kalki athva Sanskritinu Bhavi by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Rashtrabhashano Sawal by Jawaharlal Nehru, Sahityavivechanna Siddhanto by Lascelles Abercrombie, and Sahityama Vivek by Versefold.
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Nagindas Parekh translated the following three novellas, Nihsantan, Shubh Sandesh from the New Testament, Gramodhyog Pravritti by J C Kumarappa.
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Nagindas Parekh translated several Sanskrit books: Dhvanyaloka: Anandavardhana no Dhvanivichar, Vakroktijivit by Kuntaka, and Mammat no Kavyavichar.
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Nagindas Parekh was awarded the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 1970 for his critical work Abhinavno Rasavichar.
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Nagindas Parekh received the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak award in 1990 and the Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar award in 1991.