28 Facts About Ratilal Borisagar

Ratilal Mohanlal Borisagar was born on 31 August 1938 and is a Gujarati humourist, essayist and editor from Gujarat, India.

Ratilal Borisagar started his writing career as a story writer, but eventually gained acclaim as a humourist.

Ratilal Borisagar published several humour collections and humour novels, including the acclaimed book Enjoygraphy.

Ratilal Borisagar edited several works of children's literature and humour literature.

Ratilal Borisagar completed his primary and secondary education in that district.

Ratilal Borisagar completed his BA in 1963 and MA in 1967.

Ratilal Borisagar later obtained a BEd to teach in schools.

In 1989, Ratilal Borisagar received a PhD for his thesis Gujaratima Sahityik Sampadan: Vivechanatmak Adhyayan.

Ratilal Borisagar worked as a primary school teacher for three years and secondary school teacher for eight and half years.

Ratilal Borisagar briefly worked as a clerk in a post office.

Ratilal Borisagar joined the Savarkundla college in 1971, as a professor of Gujarati.

Ratilal Borisagar worked there for 21 years and retired as the Deputy Director in 1998.

Ratilal Borisagar co-edited the Akhand Anand magazine for seven years and was a committee member of the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha.

Ratilal Borisagar served as a Managing Secretary of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad from 2005 to 2009 and established Matrubhasha Samvardhan Kendra there.

Ratilal Borisagar started his career as a short story writer, however his humorous nature brought him into humour writing, where he received acclaim.

Ratilal Borisagar's humour is simple and self-deprecating, with light sarcasm or satire.

Ratilal Borisagar was directly influenced by his parents, his neighbour Dhanbai, and his high school teacher Mukundrai Pandya.

Ratilal Borisagar is considered a literary descendant of humourist Jyotindra Dave.

In 1994, Ratilal Borisagar published his first humorous novel, Sambhavami Yuge Yuge, in which he represented the title character from the Gujarati classic novel Bhadrambhadra in contemporary milieu with light criticism of Sardar Sarovar Dam, the world's second biggest dam in terms of volume of concrete used.

Ratilal Borisagar's most acclaimed work is the autobiographical humorous novel Enjoygraphy, which is a satire on his experience with heart disease and angiography, medical profession and hospital management.

Ratilal Borisagar has edited several issues of children's stories about the fictional character Bakor Patel.

Ratilal Borisagar has edited several children's poetry books in the Gurjar Balkavya Vaibhav series.

Ratilal Borisagar writes plays and criticism as well as edits works.

Ratilal Borisagar published essays in Kumar magazine from 1978 to 1982.

Ratilal Borisagar wrote a humour column entitled "Marak Marak" for the Sandesh daily newspaper from 1998 to 2003.

Ratilal Borisagar has written a Gujarati comedy TV series, Professor Zunzunwala.

Ratilal Borisagar received the Dhanji Kanji Gandhi Suvarna Chandrak in 2002, the Chandrakant Anjaria Memorial Trust Education Award in 2003, the Kavi Dahyabhai Patel Sahityaratna Suvarna Chandrak in 2011, and the Sachchidanand Samman in 2011.

In 2019, Ratilal Borisagar received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his essay collection Mojma Revu Re.