Rasiklal Chhotalal Parikh was a 20th-century Gujarati poet, playwright, literary critic, Indologist, historian, and editor from Gujarat, India.
16 Facts About Rasiklal Parikh
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Rasiklal Parikh was the president of Gujarat Sahitya Sabha and was appointed the president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1964.
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Rasiklal Parikh received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960 for his play Sharvilak.
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Rasiklal Parikh is a recipient of the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak and the Narmad Suvarna Chandrak.
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Rasiklal Parikh was born on 20 August 1897 at the village of Pethapur, now in Gandhinagar district.
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Rasiklal Parikh's father, Chhotalal Lalubhai Parikh, was a lawyer in Sadra, Gandhinagar.
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Rasiklal Parikh played an important role in shaping Rasiklal's interest in literature.
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Rasiklal Parikh shifted to Ahmedabad for further education and attended Diwan Ballubhai High School, matriculating in 1913.
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Rasiklal Parikh was influenced by Abhyankar Shastri towards Vedas and Sanskrit literature.
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Rasiklal Parikh died on 1 November 1982, the day of Sharad Purnima, in Ahmedabad.
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Rasiklal Parikh wrote extensively in literature, poetics, philosophy, drama, poetry, history, aesthetics and criticism.
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Rasiklal Parikh's first publication was a Gujarati translation of Kavyaprakasha by Mammata with critical notes; he co-translated with Ramnarayan V Pathak.
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Rasiklal Parikh founded a school of drama known as Natya Vidya Mandir which gave rise to the amateur theatre troupe Natmandal.
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Rasiklal Parikh critiqued Bhasa's Sanskrit works in Sanskrit Natak Sahitya.
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Rasiklal Parikh's Purovachan ane Vivechan, published in 1965, is a collection of applied criticism.
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Rasiklal Parikh studied Dalpatram's book on Gujarati prosody, Dalpat Pingal, while at school.