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Swasthya Sudha

Contributor: swaminarayan mandir.

Shoban Vasani

Contributor: shoban vasani.

Masala Mukhvas

Sunday emahefil.

સન્ડે ઈ મહેફીલમાં પ્રકાશીત ગુણવંતશાહના લેખોની ઈબુક

Gunvant shah, contributor: uttam gajjar.

સન્ડે ઈ મહેફીલ – ભાગ 19 (451 to 475)

Uttam gajjar.

સન્ડે ઈ મહેફીલ – ભાગ 18 (426 to 450)

Gazal - kavya.

Ek Dhabkar Tara Namno

Daksha seta kaapadiyaa, contributor: daksha seta kaapadiyaa.

Pragna Vashi

Contributor: pragna vashi, rationalism.

નિર્ભ્રાન્ત

Rashmikant desai, contributor: govind maru.

રૅશનાલઝિમના રંગ ભાગ -2

Raman pathak.

એ લોકો તમને છેતરે છે

Literary collections.

આનંદનું આકાશ ભાગ – ૧

Dr. shashikant shah.

પિંગળપ્રવેશ

Narmadashankar lalshankar, contributor: gujarat vishvakosh trust.

Swapurna Maharaj

Contributor: vallabh italiya.

હરનીશ જાનીના હાસ્યલેખોની ઈબુક

Harnish jani.

હાસ્યવાર્તાઓ હળવે હૈયે

Chiman patel, contributor: chiman patel.

દીલ હૈ કી માનતા નહીં

અહિંસા મૅગેઝિન અંક 4

Contributor: institute of jainology.

અહિંસા મેગેઝિન અંક 2

Institute of jainology.

Chef at home – Diwali Special

Hina gautam, contributor: hina gautam, short stories.

Gujaratilexicon

Contributor: gujaratilexicon.

Yashwant Thakkar

Contributor: yashwant thakkar.

Jain Tirthankar Jivan Charitra

Prafullaben rasiklal vora, contributor: pinky pandya.

Jain Darshan Ane Aachar Ni Saral Samaj

Pravin k shah, contributor: pravin k shah.

ઉત્તર ગુજરાતમાં બૌદ્ધધર્મ

Dr. jayvardhan harsh.

પક્ષી પરિચય

Dalpat parmar.

કાળમુખો સીલીકોસીસ

Jagdish patel, most popular.

Sarvopayogi Aushadh Petee

Sarvottam Aushadho

Interactive games.

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Jumble Fumble

કહેવતના આડા અવળાં ગોઠવાયેલા શબ્દોને યોગ્ય ક્રમમાં ગોઠવી સાચી કહેવત અને તેનો અર્થ જણાવતી રમત એટલે જંબલ ફંબલ

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નિબંધ માળા - નિબંધ લેખન | Essay in Gujarati | Nibandh | NibandhMala

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ઓણમ પર નિબંધ | onam par nibandh | essay on onam in gujarati

શું તમે ઓણમ પર નિબંધ શોધી રહ્યાં છો ? તો તમે બિલકુલ સાચા સ્થાને આવ્યા છો! આ આર્ટીકલમાં અમે સરસ મજાનો ઓણમ પર નિબંધ રજુ કર્યો છે અને છેલ્લે Onam Par Nibandh | Essay On Onam In Gujarati ની PDF પણ Download કરી શકશો. પ્રસ્તાવના :- ભારત વિવિધતામાં એકત…

પતંગોત્સવ પર નિબંધ ગુજરાતી | આંતરરાષ્ટ્રીય પતંગોત્સવ | પતંગોત્સવ અહેવાલ | ઉતરાયણ વિશે નિબંધ | patangotsav par nibandh in Gujarati

પ્રસ્તાવના:-  દેશ અને દુનિયા વૈવિધ્યથી ભરપૂર છે. રોજિંદા જીવનની ઘરેડમાંથી મુક્ત થવા માનવી અવનવા પ્રયોગો કરે છે. ક્યારેક એ પ્રકૃતિને ખોળે જઈ મસ્તી માણૅ છે તો ક્યારેક પોતાને મનગમતું શોપિંગ કરી આનંદ મેળવે છે. ક્યારેક એ ધાર્મિક ઉત્સવમાં ભાગ લે છે તો ક્ય…

દશેરા પર નિબંધ | dasara par nibandh | dussehra par nibandh

શું તમે  દશેરા પર નિબંધ  શોધી રહ્યાં છો ? તો તમે બિલકુલ સાચા સ્થાને આવ્યા છો! આ આર્ટીકલમાં અમે સરસ મજાનો  દશેરા પર નિબંધ  રજુ કર્યો છે અને છેલ્લે D asara Par Nibandh | Dussehra Par Nibandh  ની PDF પણ Download કરી શકશો. પ્રસ્તાવના :- ભારત એક એવો દેશ …

પોંગલ ની માહિતી | પોંગલ પર નિબંધ ગુજરાતી | Pongal Nibandh in Gujarati

શું તમે  પોંગલ ની માહિતી  નિબંધ  શોધી રહ્યાં છો ? તો તમે બિલકુલ સાચા સ્થાને આવ્યા છો! આ આર્ટીકલમાં અમે સરસ મજાનો  પોંગલ પર નિબંધ ગુજરાતી  રજુ કર્યો છે અને છેલ્લે  Pongal Nibandh in Gujarati ની PDF પણ Download કરી શકશો. પ્રસ્તાવના :- પોંગલનો અર્થ સંપ…

ગણેશ ચતુર્થી પર નિબંધ | ગણેશ ચતુર્થી વિશે માહિતી | Ganesh Chaturthi Nibandh In Gujarati | Ganesh Chaturthi Essay in Gujarati

શું તમે ગુજરાતીમાં ગણેશ ચતુર્થી પર નિબંધ  શોધી રહ્યાં છો ? તો તમે બિલકુલ સાચા સ્થાને આવ્યા છો! આ આર્ટીકલમાં અમે સરસ મજાનો ગણેશ ચતુર્થી વિશે માહિતી  રજુ કર્યો છે અને છેલ્લે    Ganesh Chaturthi Nibandh In Gujarati | Ganesh Chaturthi Essay in Gujarat…

ઈદ પર નિબંધ | Eid Par Nibandh | Eid Par Essay In Gujarati

શું તમે  ઈદ પર નિબંધ  શોધી રહ્યાં છો ? તો તમે બિલકુલ સાચા સ્થાને આવ્યા છો! આ આર્ટીકલમાં અમે સરસ મજાનો  ઈદ પર નિબંધ  રજુ કર્યો છે અને છેલ્લે    Eid Par Nibandh | Eid Par Essay In Gujarati  ની PDF પણ Download કરી શકશો. પ્રસ્તાવના :- વિશ્વમાં ભારત એકમા…

ક્રિસમસ પર નિબંધ | નાતાલ વિશે નિબંધ | christmas par nibandh | christmas day par nibandh | natal par nibandh

શું તમે ગુજરાતીમાં ક્રિસમસ પર નિબંધ શોધી રહ્યાં છો ? તો તમે બિલકુલ સાચા સ્થાને આવ્યા છો!  આ આર્ટીકલમાં અમે સરસ મજાનો ક્રિસમસ પર નિબંધ | નાતાલ વિશે નિબંધ રજુ કર્યો છે અને છેલ્લે Christmas Par Nibandh ની PDF પણ Download કરી શકશો. પ્રસ્તાવના :- વિશ્…

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 Gujarati Nibandh | Gujarati Essay | ગુજરાતી નિબંધ List

Gujarati nibandh, Gujarati essay, ગુજરાતી નિબંધ કે Gujarati nibandh List તમે ઇન્ટરનેટ ૫ર સર્ચ કરી રહયા છો. તો તમે અહી યોગ્ય સ્થાને આવ્યા છો. અમે અમારા આ બ્લોક ૫ર વિવિઘ વિષયો ૫ર ગુજરાતી નિબંધ (Gujarati essay) પ્રકાશિત કરીએ છે. અહી તમને અમે અમારી વેબસાઇટ ૫ર અત્યાર સુઘીમાં લખવામાં આવેલ ગુજરાતી નિબંધની યાદી (Gujarati essay List) આપીશું. જેના ૫ર કલીક કરી તમે સરળતાથી તે નિબંધ વાંચી શકશો. તદઉ૫રાંત અમે તમને અહી જે તે Gujarati nibandh PDF ફાઇલ સ્વરૂપે ૫ણ પુરો પાડવાનો પ્રયત્ન કરીશુ જેથી તમે તેને ડાઉનલોડ કરી લખી-વાંચી શકો. તો ચાલો હવે Gujarati nibandh ના લીસ્ટ તરફ આગળ વઘીએ.

મિત્રો અમે આ Gujarati nibandh લેખન કલામાં નિષ્ણાત વિદ્વાન શિક્ષકો દ્વારા લખાવેલ છે. જેથી તેમાં તમને જે તે વિષયની ઉમદા માહિતી મળી રહેશેે. જો તમને નિબંધ ગમે તો તમારા મિત્રો સાથે શેયર કરવાનું ચુકશો નહી. જેથી આવા ઉમદા ગુજરાતી નિબંધ આગળ ૫ણ લખતા રહીએ.

Gujarati essay

ચાલો વાંચીએ વિદ્વાન લેખકોના હદયની ઉર્મીઓ રેડીને તૈયાર કરવામાં આવેલ ગુજરાતી નિબંધનો ખજાનો

પ્રાકૃતિક નિબંધ

વસંતઋતુ વિશે નિબંધ, ઉનાળાની બપોર નિબંધ, પ્રકૃતિના રમ્ય અને રૌદ્ર સ્વરૂપ નિબંધ, અતિવૃષ્ટિ નિબંધ, વર્ષાઋતુ નિબંધ, અનાવૃષ્ટિ અથવા દુકાળ વિશે નિબંધ, વિનાશક વાવાઝોડું નિબંધ, પ્રકૃતિ પરમાત્માનું સ્વરૂપ નિબંધ, વહેલી સવારનું ભ્રમણ નિબંધ, ચોમાસુ નિબંધ, તહેવાર વિષયક નિબંધ, ગુરુ પૂર્ણિમા નિબંધ, હોળી પર નિબંધ, વસંત પંચમી નિબંધ, મહાશિવરાત્રી નિબંધ, જન્માષ્ટમી નિબંધ, રક્ષાબંધન વિશે નિબંધ, દશેરા વિશે નિબંધ , નવરાત્રી નિબંધ, નાતાલ નિબંધ, શરદ પૂર્ણિમા વિશે નિબંધ, સામાજિક, આર્થિક, સાંસ્કતિ અને કેળવણી વિષયક નિબંધ, બેટી બચાવો બેટી પઢાવો નિબંધ, પર્યાવરણ નું મહત્વ નિબંધ, મારા સપનાનું ભારત નિબંધ, મતદાન જાગૃતિ નિબંધ, આઝાદી કા અમૃત મહોત્સવ નિબંધ, વૃક્ષો આપણા મિત્રો નિબંધ, માનવ અને પશુની મૈત્રી નિબંધ, આત્મનિર્ભર ભારત નિબંધ, માતૃભાષા નું મહત્વ નિબંધ , માતૃભાષામાં શિક્ષણ નિબંધ , વિશ્વ બંધુત્વ નિબંધ, સમાજનું નવનિર્માણ અને તરુણો નિબંધ, પ્લાસ્ટિક મુક્ત ભારત નિબંધ, વસ્તી વધારો નિબંધ, શિક્ષક દિન નિબંધ, કુદરતી આપત્તિ નિબંધ, વિશ્વ મહિલા દિવસ નિબંધ, રાષ્ટ્રીય એકતા નિબંધ, મારી શાળા નિબંધ, એક નદીની આત્મકથા નિબંધ, વિશ્વ સંસ્કૃત દિવસ, ઓનલાઇન શિક્ષણ ના ફાયદા અને ગેરફાયદા નિબંધ, સમયનું મહત્વ નિબંધ, શ્રમનું મહત્વ નિબંધ, આતંકવાદ એક વૈશ્વિક સમસ્યા નિબંધ, પ્રદૂષણ એક ગંભીર સમસ્યા નિબંધ, પ્રવાસનું જીવન ઘડતરમાં સ્થાન નિબંધ, મતદાન મારો અધિકાર નિબંધ, પાણી બચાવો નિબંધ ગુજરાતી, જીવનમાં શિસ્તનું મહત્વ નિબંધ, નારી સશક્તિકરણ નિબંધ, સ્ટેચ્યુ ઓફ યુનિટી વિશે નિબંધ, ઓનલાઇન થઇ રહેલું વિશ્વ નિબંધ, વિજ્ઞાનનું મહત્વ નિબંધ, પ્રવાસનું મહત્વ નિબંધ, જય જય ગરવી ગુજરાત નિબંધ, વાંચન નું મહત્વ નિબંધ, પુસ્તકો આપણા સાચા મિત્રો નિબંધ, મિત્રતાની મીઠાશ નિબંધ, જીવનમાં સાદગીનું મહત્વ નિબંધ, મને શું થવું ગમે નિબંધ, સૈનિક વિશે નિબંધ, હાય રે મોંઘવારી નિબંધ, યુદ્ધ નહી પણ બુદ્ધ નિબંધ, કન્યા વિદાય નિબંધ, મારા શૈશવના સંસ્મરણો નિબંધ, પિતા દિવસ નિબંધ, વિશ્વ આદિવાસી દિવસ  , પર્યાવરણના સંરક્ષણ માટે મારો ફાળો નિબંધ , પ્રામાણિકતા નિબંધ, જાહેરાતોનું વિશ્વ નિબંધ, માનવ અધિકાર વિશે ગુજરાતી નિબંધ, એક ભારત શ્રેષ્ઠ ભારત નિબંધ, પ્રાર્થના જીવનનું બળ નિબંધ, ગ્રાહક જાગૃતિ નિબંધ, વ્યકિત વિશેષ તથા પ્રાણીઓ-પક્ષીઓ વિશે નિબંધ, પ્રાણીઓ-પક્ષીઓ વિશે, ગાય વિશે નિબંધ , મોર વિશે નિબંધ, પોપટ વિશે નિબંધ, હાથી વિશે નિબંધ, સિંહ વિશે નિબંધ, કાબર વિશે નિબંધ, કબૂતર વિશે નિબંધ, વ્યકિત વિશેષ નિબંધ, ગાંધીજીના વિચારો નિબંધ, ભગતસિંહ વિશે નિબંધ, કલ્પના ચાવલા નિબંધ, મધર ટેરેસા વિશે નિબંધ, ગુરુ તેગ બહાદુર વિશે નિબંધ, મારા પ્રિય નેતા નરેન્દ્ર મોદી વિશે નિબંધ, ડો બાબાસાહેબ આંબેડકર નિબંધ.

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• તમામ ગુજરાતી નિબંધ
• શૈશવના સંસ્મરણો નિબંધ
• ઉનાળાનો બપોર નિબંધ
• નદીતટે સંધ્યા | નદીકિનારે સાંજ ગુજરાતી નિબંધ
• અતિવૃષ્ટિ નિબંધ | વર્ષાનું તાંડવ
• શિયાળાની સવાર નિબંધ
• જળ એ જ જીવન નિબંધ
• ઉનાળો - બળબળતા જામ્યા બપોર
• ધરતીનો છેડો ઘર નિબંધ
• વસંતઋતુ | વસંતનો વૈભવ નિબંધ
• શરદ પૂર્ણિમા નિબંધ
• દશેરા નિબંધ
• ગાંધી જયંતી નિબંધ
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• નાતાલ વિશે નિબંધ
• રથયાત્રા નિબંધ
• દિવાળી નિબંધ
• ગુરુ પૂર્ણિમા નિબંધ
• વસંત પંચમી નિબંધ
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• કોરોના વાયરસ નિબંધ
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• માતૃપ્રેમ | માં તે માં | માં
• 26મી જાન્યુઆરી (પ્રજાસત્તાક દિન)
• 15મી ઓગસ્ટ (સ્વતંત્રતા દિવસ)
• એક સૈનિકની આત્મકથા નિબંધ
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• એક ચબુતરાની આત્મકથા
• નિશાળનો બાંકડો બોલે છે...
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મારું પ્રિય પુસ્તક નિબંધ ગુજરાતી | My Favourite Book Essay in Gujarati

શું તમે ગુજરાતીમાં મારું પ્રિય પુસ્તક વિશે નિબંધ શોધી રહ્યાં છો ? તો તમે બિલકુલ સાચા સ્થાને આવ્યા છો!

મારું પ્રિય પુસ્તક વિશે નિબંધ

નીચે આપેલ મારું પ્રિય પુસ્તક વિશે નિબંધ ગુજરાતીમાં  100, 250  શબ્દોમાં નિબંધ ધોરણ  10 ,  11  અને  12  માટે ઉપયોગી થશે.

મારું પ્રિય પુસ્તક વિશે ગુજરાતીમાં નિબંધ 

મારું પ્રિય પુસ્તક નિબંધ ગુજરાતી pdf download, મારું પ્રિય પુસ્તક નિબંધ ગુજરાતી વિડીયો :, conclusion :.

• મહાત્મા ગાંધી વિશે ગુજરાતી નિબંધ
• સ્વામી વિવેકાનંદ વિશે ગુજરાતી નિબંધ
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પુસ્તકો માહિતી, પ્રેરણા અને ડાયવર્ઝનનો અવિશ્વસનીય સ્ત્રોત છે. તેઓ આપણને વિવિધ બ્રહ્માંડમાં લઈ જઈ શકે છે અને જીવન પ્રત્યેના નવા દૃષ્ટિકોણ આપી શકે છે. આવું જ એક પુસ્તક જે મને નોંધપાત્ર રીતે અસર કરે છે તે છે ડૉ. એ.પી.જે. અબ્દુલ કલામનું “અગ્નિપંખ”. આ લેખમાં, હું આ પુસ્તક પરના મારા વિચારો અને જ્ઞાનના ટુકડાઓ શેર કરીશ, તે શા માટે મારો નંબર વન છે અને મારા જીવન માટે તેનો અર્થ શું છે.

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“અગ્નિપંખ” એ ડૉ. કલામ દ્વારા ભારતભરના યુવાનોને આપેલા પ્રવચનો અને વાર્તાલાપનો સમૂહ છે. પુસ્તકને ત્રણ વિભાગોમાં વિભાજિત કરવામાં આવ્યું છે: “મેકિંગ અ સુપિરિયર કન્ટ્રી,” “મારું પર્યટન,” અને “શાળાકીય શિક્ષણ પર ચિંતન.” દરેક ભાગને વધારામાં વિભાગોમાં વિભાજિત કરવામાં આવે છે જે રાષ્ટ્રવાદ અને પહેલથી લઈને સ્વ-જાગૃતિ અને વ્યવસાય સુધારણા સુધીના મુદ્દાઓના અવકાશને આવરી લે છે.

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આ ભાગમાં, ડૉ. કલામ ભારત માટેના તેમના વિઝનને શેર કરે છે અને દેશની સફળતા માટે જરૂરી છે તે લાક્ષણિકતાઓને તેઓ સ્વીકારે છે. તે મુશ્કેલ કાર્ય, શિસ્ત અને વિશ્વાસપાત્રતાના મહત્વ પર ભાર મૂકે છે અને યુવાનોને ગતિશીલ રહેવાસી બનવા વિનંતી કરે છે જે સમાજની પ્રગતિમાં ઉમેરો કરે છે.

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“અગ્નિપંખ” એ કોઈ પુસ્તક નથી. એક પુસ્તકે મને અનંત રીતે આગળ ધપાવી છે, અને જ્યારે પણ હું તેને વાંચું છું ત્યારે તે આવું કરવાનું ચાલુ રાખે છે. મને આ પુસ્તક કેમ ગમે છે તેની પાછળ કેટલીક પ્રેરણાઓ છે: પુસ્તક રોમાંચક વાર્તાઓ, નિવેદનો અને વાર્તાઓથી ભરેલું છે જે મને વ્યક્તિગત રીતે સુધારવા માટે સમજાવે છે. ડૉ. કલામનું પોતાનું પર્યટન, તેમની લડાઈઓ અને જીત, એક જાગૃત કોલ તરીકે કામ કરે છે કે તમારી પાસે યોગ્ય માનસિકતા અને વર્તન છે એવું માનીને આકાશ એક મર્યાદા છે.

આ પુસ્તક માત્ર ભારતને જ લાગુ પડતું નથી, પરંતુ સમગ્ર વિશ્વને લાગુ પડે છે. ડૉ. કલામ જે વિચારો અને નિયમોની તપાસ કરે છે તે વ્યાપક છે અને કોઈપણ અનોખી પરિસ્થિતિમાં લાગુ કરી શકાય છે. શ્રેષ્ઠ વિશ્વની તેમની દ્રષ્ટિ, જે સ્નેહ, સહાનુભૂતિ અને વહીવટ પર આધારિત છે, તે કંઈક છે જે મને ઊંડી અસર કરે છે. “અગ્નિપંખ” નો અભ્યાસ કરવો એ મારા માટે ગ્રાઉન્ડબ્રેકિંગ એન્કાઉન્ટર રહ્યું છે. તે મને મારી કલ્પનાઓને ઉર્જા અને ખાતરી સાથે શોધવા અને મારી જાતને ક્યારેય ન છોડવા માટે પ્રેરિત કરે છે. તેણે મને મુશ્કેલ કામ, શિસ્ત અને આદરપાત્રતાનું મહત્વ બતાવ્યું છે અને મને જીવન પ્રત્યેનો બીજો દૃષ્ટિકોણ આપ્યો છે.

એ જ રીતે પુસ્તકે મને મારી અને પૃથ્વી પરની મારી સ્થિતિ વિશે વધુ ગહન સમજણ વધારવામાં મદદ કરી છે. તેણે મને મારા ઝોક અને રુચિઓની તપાસ કરવા અને પૃથ્વી પર રચનાત્મક પરિણામ મેળવવા માટે મારી ભેટો અને ક્ષમતાઓનો ઉપયોગ કરવા વિનંતી કરી છે.  એક મજબૂત અને ગતિશીલ કાર્ય મને નોંધપાત્ર રીતે અસર કરે છે. રોજબરોજના જીવનમાં પ્રેરણા, પ્રેરણા અને દિશાની શોધ કરનારા કોઈપણને હું ઉત્સાહપૂર્વક આ પુસ્તક લખું છું.

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ધારીએ કે તમે તમારા જીવનમાં પ્રેરણા અને પ્રેરણા શોધી રહ્યાં છો, “અગ્નિપંખ” તમારા માટે આદર્શ પુસ્તક છે. પુસ્તક એ અપેક્ષિતનું મજબૂત સંકેત છે જે આપણામાંના દરેકમાં અસ્તિત્વમાં છે, અને આપણા ઉદ્દેશ્યોને પૂર્ણ કરવા માટે પ્રયત્નશીલતાનું મહત્વ છે.

તેમના પ્રવચનો દ્વારા, ડૉ. કલામ રોજિંદા જીવનમાં વધતી જતી સકારાત્મક દિનચર્યાઓથી લઈને અવરોધો અને મુશ્કેલીઓને હરાવવા સુધીના શ્રેષ્ઠ માર્ગ પર કાર્યાત્મક સલાહ આપે છે. તે વાંચનારાઓને વિનંતી કરે છે કે તેઓ પોતાનામાં વિશ્વાસ રાખે અને તેમની કલ્પનાઓને ક્યારેય ન છોડે.

પહેલ અને સ્વ-સુધારણામાં રસ ધરાવનાર કોઈપણ માટે પુસ્તક એ જ રીતે અસાધારણ સંપત્તિ છે. ડૉ. કલામ શક્તિશાળી અગ્રણી બનવાની સૌથી નિપુણ પદ્ધતિ અને આદર, નીડરતા અને નમ્રતાની લાક્ષણિકતાઓ કેવી રીતે વિકસાવવી તેના પર તેમના અનુભવો શેર કરે છે.

“અગ્નિપંખ” નો ઉપયોગ કરવાની રીતો “અગ્નિપંખ” થી લાભ મેળવવાની અહીં કેટલીક રીતો છે:

જરૂરી હોય તેટલો સમય લો: “અગ્નિપંખ” એક જાડું અને રસપ્રદ પુસ્તક છે, તેથી તેના દ્વારા દોડશો નહીં. દરેક પ્રવચન અને રજૂ કરેલા વિચારોને ધ્યાનમાં લેવાની તક શોધો.

ફીચર કી સેક્શન: જેમ જેમ તમે વાંચો છો, ફીચર એન્ટ્રીઓ કે જે તમને અસર કરે છે અથવા જે તમે ખાસ કરીને રોમાંચક તરીકે જુઓ છો.

નોંધ લો: પુસ્તકમાંના મહત્વપૂર્ણ વિષયો અને વિચારો પર નોંધો લખો. આ તમને તેને પછીથી યાદ કરવામાં અને તેને તમારા જીવનમાં લાગુ કરવામાં મદદ કરશે.

અન્ય લોકો સાથે તપાસ કરો: “અગ્નિપંખ” સમૂહ વાતચીત માટે એક અસાધારણ પુસ્તક છે. પુસ્તક અને તમે તેનાથી શું મેળવ્યું છે તે વિશે સાથીદારો, કુટુંબીજનો અથવા સહયોગીઓ સાથે વાતચીત કરો.

“ અગ્નિપંખ” સાથે મારી ખાસ વાતચીત  My Special interaction to “Agnipankh”

“અગ્નિપંખ” મારા હૃદયમાં એક અનોખું સ્થાન ધરાવે છે, કારણ કે તે મેં વાંચેલા પ્રાથમિક પુસ્તકોમાંનું એક હતું જેણે મને ખરેખર પ્રેરણા આપી હતી. ડૉ. કલામના સંબોધનોએ મારો ઊંડો સંપર્ક કર્યો અને મને ઊર્જા અને નિષ્ઠા સાથે મારી કલ્પનાઓ શોધવા માટે સમજાવ્યા.

એક યુવાન પુખ્ત વયના તરીકે, હું રોજિંદા જીવનમાં મારી પ્રેરણા શોધવા માટે લડતો હતો અને હારી ગયો અને મૂંઝવણ અનુભવતો હતો. જો કે, “અગ્નિપંખ” વાંચીને મને એ જોવામાં મદદ કરી કે આકાશ એ એક મર્યાદા છે એમ ધારીને હું મહત્વાકાંક્ષી રીતે વિચારવાની હિંમત કરું છું અને અવિશ્વસનીય ખાતરી સાથે તે કલ્પનાઓને શોધવાની અથાક મહેનત.

પુસ્તકે મને સકારાત્મક દૃષ્ટિકોણ વિકસાવવામાં અને મારી અને મારી ક્ષમતાઓમાં વિશ્વાસ રાખવામાં મદદ કરી. તે જ રીતે મને પ્રગતિ કરવામાં મુશ્કેલ કામ, ખંત અને નમ્રતાનું મહત્વ બતાવ્યું.

“અગ્નિપંખ” તમને કેવી રીતે પ્રોત્સાહિત કરી શકે છે  How “Agnipankh” Can Motivate You

એમ ધારી રહ્યા છીએ કે તમે રોજિંદા જીવનમાં તમારા માર્ગ પર અટવાયેલા અથવા અનિશ્ચિત દૃષ્ટિકોણ ધરાવો છો, “અગ્નિપંખ” તમે આગળ ધપાવવા માંગો છો તે પ્રેરણા અને દિશા આપી શકે છે. ડૉ. કલામના પ્રવચન દ્વારા, તમે પહેલ, સ્વ-જાગૃતિ અને પ્રગતિ કરવા વિશે મહત્વપૂર્ણ ઉદાહરણો શીખી શકશો.

આ પુસ્તક તમને તમારા જીવન માટે સ્વપ્ન જોવાનું મહત્વ અને ઉર્જા અને નિષ્ઠા સાથે તે દ્રષ્ટિને મેળવવાની હિંમત બતાવશે. તે જ રીતે તમને અવરોધો અને મુશ્કેલીઓને હરાવવા અને તમારી કલ્પનાઓને ક્યારેય છોડવા માટે પ્રેરિત કરશે.

“અગ્નિપંખ” નો અભ્યાસ તમને સકારાત્મક દૃષ્ટિકોણને ઉત્તેજન આપવામાં અને તમારી જાતમાં અને તમારી ક્ષમતાઓમાં વિશ્વાસ રાખવા માટે મદદ કરશે. તે તમને પ્રગતિ કરવામાં મુશ્કેલ કાર્ય, સ્થિરતા અને નમ્રતાનું મૂલ્ય બતાવશે અને તમને તમારા શ્રેષ્ઠ સ્વમાં ફેરવવા માટે પ્રેરિત કરશે.

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Essays on the philosophy and method of self-discipline presented in the Bhagavad Gita. These essays were first published in the monthly review Arya between 1916 and 1920 and revised in the 1920s by Sri Aurobindo for publication as a book.

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Best Gujarati Books To Read

Want to know Best Gujarati Books To Read? Well you have landed on the right article. Reading books has become one of the most popular hobbies, especially since lockdown. Reading books from different genres allows the reader to gain more knowledge and build up a strong vocabulary. There are many books that contain essential information related to history or science. There are many books available in different languages. There are many Gujarati language books that consist of life-changing stories and lessons for readers.  Many Gujarati books provide a clear perspective and also a lot of information about historical events. Gujarati novels are widely popular and are rich in culture. Many famous Gujarati writers such as  Ashwini Bhatt, K.M Munshi, Amrita Pritam, etc  have written books of various genres such as thrillers, romance, suspense, and many more. Autobiographies of many  Gujarati leaders, especially Mahatma Gandhi,  are also very popular and widely read across the country.

List of 15 Best Gujarati Books To Read

1. saraswatichandra.

Saraswatichandra is a Gujarati novel written by Govardhanram Tripathi. This book is set in the 19th-century feudalism that occurred in India. This novel has three more sequels and was written over a period of over 15 years. The first part of Saraswatichandra was published in 1887 followed by three more sequels in 1892, 1898, and 1902 respectively. This Gujarati novel costs Rs. 700 in paperback and Rs. 588 in Kindle edition. 

Saraswatichandra has a total number of 1184 pages and was originally written in the Gujarati language. It has been translated into several languages since then. Synopsis: Set in late-nineteenth-century India, this is the story of an educated and spiritual young man at a crossroads in his life. Despite being betrothed to and in love with Kumud, he calls off their engagement due to escalating familial tensions and flees Bombay to learn about his country and seek enlightenment. You can purchase the novel Saraswatichandra from these websites:

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2. The Five Brothers

The Five Brothers is the third part of a seven-volume sequel written on Krishna's life and his adventures named- Krishnavatara. The Five Brothers is a third volume that ends with the swayamvar of Draupadi. The author of this book is K.M Munshi. The Five Brothers novel was initially published on 26th January 1968 by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and consists of 632 pages. The price of this book ranges between Rs. 300 to 500. This Gujarati novel has been translated into many other languages and is widely available in English as well. 

Synopsis: Krishnavatara is a seven-volume narrative that revolves around Krishna's life and travels and weaves a romance into it. He was smart and valiant, loving and loved, foresightful but present, graced with sage-like detachment yet intensely human; the diplomat, sage, and man of action with a personality as dazzling as a divinity's. You can purchase the novel The Five Brothers from these websites:

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Othaar is a very popular Gujarati novel written by Ashwini Bhatt. This novel describes the struggle of the freedom fighters and the journey they went through against the Britishers. The whole adventure in the novel is beautifully described and that would make you more interested to read the second part of the book. Othaar was originally published in Gujarati language and it consists of 955 pages. 

Othaar was first published in 1984. The Gujarati novel comes in sets of two, its sequel as well. The set costs around Rs. 850-900. Synopsis: The story revolves around the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The stories about Kings, British Raj, and freedom fighters of the 1850s are beautifully portrayed in this book. It has a beautiful description of the locations of Jabalpur. It talks about love stories, romance with suspense and thrill. You can purchase the novel Othaar and its sequel from these websites:

4. Himalayano Pravas

Himalayano Pravas is a great book that describes the Himalayas and their inner beauty. You can read the in-depth details of the Himalayas by peacefully sitting at home. The author of the book Himalayano Pravas is Kakasaheb Kalelkar. This book was originally written in Gujarati language and consists of 233 pages . The publisher of this book is Navjivan Trust . The price range of this book is Rs. 70-94.

Synopsis: This book is about a pilgrim's journey. This is a great book about the Himalayas, according to all sources. It also demonstrates the majestic mountain range's inherent beauty. The author walked over the Himalayan range on foot (Uttarakhand). Over the course of two months, the physical adventure described here unfolded. The travelog describes in great depth the stunning magnificence of the Himalayas, as well as the places and people that live there. It evokes the surreal beauty of the Himalayan valley. The Himalayas will pique your attention after reading this book. You can purchase the novel Himalayano Pravas and its sequel from these websites:

5. Manvini bhavai

Manvini Bhavai is a Gujarati novel written by Pannalal Patel that describes the period during the Indian famine of 1899 to 1900. This novel is about the love story between Kalu and Raju and also about the experience of farmers during the famine. This novel was originally written in Gujarati language and translated to English by V.Y Kantak in 1995. This novel was also adapted into a Gujarati movie scene in 1993 . This book consists of 382 pages and costs between Rs. 260-308.

Synopsis: In Manvi Ni Bhavai, Kalu, the son of Vala Patel, and Raju, the daughter of Gala Patel, fall in love. They are in love and want to marry one other, but both have other commitments. Patel's love story takes place during the Indian famine of 1899-1900, and the novel's closing scene ends with the first drops of rain, symbolizing the end of the hunger. You can purchase the novel Manvini Bhavai and its sequel from these websites:

6. Satya Na paryogo

Satya Na paryogo is all about the experiences of Mahatma Gandhi , and the hardships and struggles to live in an independent India. This book describes Mahatma’s path of non-violence and truth towards independence. This book is an autobiography written by Mahatma Gandhi and consists of 210 pages. Satya Na Paryogo was originally written in the Gujarati language. It was originally published in 1927 by Navjivan.

Synopsis: The book's first page announces a pact he made with his readers, outlining both the circumstances and his motivations for creating it. Following that is a chronologically organized series, beginning with a genealogical description of his forefathers. He then goes into great depth regarding his childhood and youth, his stay in South Africa , and his activities since returning to India. In 1921, four years before he began writing his memoirs, the story abruptly ended. His rejection of the popular praise he received at the Indian National Congress conference in Nagpur is the subject of the concluding chapter. Gandhi's self-experimentation is described in the book as he pursued his quest for truth, which he defined as truth for him. You can purchase the autobiography Satya Na prayogo from these websites:

7. Nirja bhargav

Nirja Bhargav is a Gujarati Novel that consists of a thriller and suspense story. This is one of the best Gujarati novels written by Ashwini Bhatt. This novel comes under the category of thrill and suspense. Nirja Bhargav consists of 226 pages and was originally written in the Gujarati language. It was published in 2012 by Navbharat. The price range of this book is Rs. 160 to 200. Synopsis: Nirja Bhargav is the protagonist of this narrative. At the stroke of midnight, who knocks on the door of a station master? 

He conceals her and discovers a body on his bed. Following that, a series of events occurs involving the police and the drug mafia, as well as other characters such as Dr. Bhargav and Dr. Malu, among others. You can purchase the novel Nirja Bhargav from these websites:

8. Malela Jeev

Malela Jeev is a romantic novel that describes the difficulties people face when they are in love and belong to different castes. This book beautifully portrays the real face of society when it comes to such situations. Malela Jeev is written by Pannalal Patel and was originally published in the 1940s. It was written in Gujarati language and later translated into many languages. This book consists of 272 pages and is a classic novel. 

This book comes within the price range of Rs. 175-220. Synopsis: Caste divisions Kanji and Jivi dwell in Idar's Jogipara and Udharia villages. They met and fell in love during the Janmashtami Fair. Because they came from different castes, they couldn't marry. Social obligations also exist at Kanji's elder brother's house. He, on the other hand, is drowning without Jivi. Hiro, one of Jivi's friends, advises him to marry Dhula, the barber who works in their neighbourhood. Kanji finally decides to marry Jivi to Dhula with Hira after a protracted psychological war. His strategy, on the other hand, fails to provide the desired outcomes. Because of Dhula's suspicious nature, tyranny, and mistreatment of Jivi, Kanji's scheme fails. Kanji's indecisiveness and God-fearing attitude also play a role in his demise. In order to evade Jivi, Kanji moves from the rural to the city. Jivi, meantime, has had enough of the daily squabbles and beatings, and has attempted suicide. Her tyrannical husband Dhulo, on the other hand, is accidently killed, and she has an emotional collapse while grieving for her beloved Kanji. Kanji's earthly love blossomed into spiritual love, and he returned to the city to be with Jivi. You can purchase the novel Malela Jeev from these websites:

Pinjar is a Gujarati novel written by Amrita Pritam. It is one of the best Gujarati novels which consists of 128 pages. It was originally written in the Gujarati language. It is a classic fiction book. The price for this book is around Rs.134. It is also available in the Hindi language. Synopsis : Puro, a Hindu girl kidnapped by a Muslim man, is the novel's key character. This story takes place during the partition of India and Pakistan. Puro is kidnapped and taken away from her home by Rashid. 

She is able to get away from the hum and return to her house. Puro's parents, on the other hand, will refuse to adopt the tainted daughter if she escapes Rashid's house. You can purchase the novel Pinjar from these websites:

Gandhi is also a Gujarati novel written by Gunvant B. Shah. The book consists of 353 pages and is originally written in Gujarati language.  The price of the book is around 200 and is also available in Hindi Language. The book talks about the life of Gandhiji and how he fought for the nation during British rule. Synopsis: The text is divided into separate significant headings by the author. In the first section, he discusses some of Gandhi's ideals with which the new generation or current generation will strongly disagree. 

Cow protection, celibacy, and other views are among them. He then goes on to discuss some of Mahatma's strengths in the next part. One of them is maintaining the highest level of integrity in the face of adversity. Another would be the ability to live a life that is transparent and open at all times. The book can be purchased from these websites:

11. Jai Somnath

Jai Somnath is a very famous historical novel written by K.M Munshi . It is a very inspirational novel that was originally written in the Gujarati language. It consists of all the historical wars and invaders that came to India. This novel consists of 264 pages and costs between Rs. 186-200. Synopsis: Lord Somanath's shrine at Prabhas is a highly holy place where people come for darshan and prayers. When the narrative begins, Chaula is a very young temple dancer. She is only eighteen years old, yet she has the privilege of dancing in front of the Lord on a special day.

Everyone congratulates her. She meets Bheemdev and immediately falls in love with him. The temple is destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni, and this book tells the narrative of how the temple was destroyed. You can purchase the novel Jai Somnath from these websites:

12. Shailaji Sagar

Shailaja Sagar is a fiction book that is written by Ashwini Bhatt. This book was originally written in Gujarati language and it consists of 171 pages. It was published in 1979 by Navbharat Sahitya Mandir. Ashwini Bhatt has written many popular Gujarati novels that have gained a lot of attention. Synopsis: The phone rings on the inflated mattress floating in the swimming pool, ringing the bell, as if the devil had joined hands with Shailaja, and an earthquake shook Shailaja's life. Shailaja-Sanjeev, Prema-Inderjit's story slips into a realm in which one has to wield a dagger to survive and a pistol to make one's way ......!

You can purchase the novel, Shailaja Sagar, from these websites:

13. The Book Of Yudhishthira

The Book Of Yudhishthira is the seventh part of a seven-volume sequel written on Krishna's life and his adventures named- Krishnavatara. The Book Of Yudhishthira is based on religion and spirituality.  The author of this book is K.M. Munshi. This book consists of 262 pages and is published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. The price of this book ranges from Rs.260-to 320. Synopsis: This book covers the major events leading up to the Kuruskshetra battle and concludes with the battle itself. 

Hastinapur was ruled by the Kauravas, while the Pandavas had to make do with Khadavaprastha, a barren wasteland. They did, however, transform it into a magnificent location and were able to invite monarchs to conduct the Rajasuya. There is a major fight when Krishna is honoured. The Kauravas then invite the Pandavas to play the famous dice game, which leads to their exile and the Mahabharat war. You can purchase the novel The Book Of Yudhishthira from these websites:

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Aakhet is part one of three sequels written by Ashwini Bhatt. It is a Gujarati novel that has a mix of romance, bravery , and adventures. This is one of the best novels by Ashwini Bhatt. This book is originally written in the Gujarati language and consists of 1500 pages. The price of this book is about Rs.1100. This book first Synopsis: It is the story of Vasant Gaonkar, the owner of a huge industrial empire. 

The story of the abandonment of an orphaned child near the railway tracks. The story of an officer who was fired from the police force. You can purchase the novel Aakhet by Ashwini Bhatt from these websites:

15. Vevishal

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Sushila's family moves to 43 Mumbai and becomes wealthy before that happens. The 'patriarch' of the wealthy family, Chaak Sheth, is determined to avoid the promised alliance at all costs. Vevishaal portrays the story of the ensuing conflict between a wealthy, cruel guy and his assumed modest competitors without taking sides. At the conclusion of the story, the showdown displays all of the main characters at the pinnacle of their development. You can purchase the novel Vevishal and its sequel from these websites:

Ashwini Bhatt's Kasab is one of the best Gujarati novels which comprises every bit of drama, thrill, humor as well as romance. This novel was widely popular in Gujarat and was translated into many other languages in India. Kasab was originally written in the Gujarati language and was published in 1992 by Shakti. Consists of 120 pages and comes at a price of Rs. 118-126. Synopsis: This book is about the story of a con. A fictional story of a con who cons people for its personal gain. 

The story has drama, thrill, humor and a little romance. A dramatic con fiction story that will win your hearts. You can purchase the novel Kasab from these websites:

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ત્રિફળા અને તેની ઘટક વનસ્પતિઓની આ પુસ્તકમાં વિસ્તૃત સમીક્ષા કદાચ સૌપ્રથમ વાર કરવામાં આવી છે. આ વિષયમાં થયેલાં આધુનિક સંશોધનોનો આમાં સમાવેશ કરવા યથાશક્ય પ્રયત્ન કર્યો છે. આ વિશિષ્ટ પુસ્તકમાં ત્રિફળાની ઘટક વનસ્પતિઓનું વિતરણ, આકારવિજ્ઞાન, વનસ્પતિ રસાયણ, ઔષધગુણવિજ્ઞાનીય (Pharmacological) ગુણધર્મો, પ્રણાલિકાગત ઉપયોગો, આયુર્વેદ, લોકઔષધવિજ્ઞાન, યુનાની કે અન્ય ઔષધ પદ્ધતિ અને ઔષધની આડઅસરોનો સમાવેશ કરવાનો યત્કિંચિત પ્રયાસ કરવામાં આવ્યો છે. ત્રિફળા અને હરડે, બહેડાં તથા આમળામાં રહેલા સક્રિય પોષક પદાર્થો વિકિરણ અને વિષયુક્ત રસાયણો સામે રક્ષણ આપે છે. તેઓ પ્રતિઉપચાયી (anti-oxidant) છે અને શરીરમાં થતા રોગોનું પ્રતિરક્ષા (immunity) દ્વારા નિવારણ કરે છે. આ પુસ્તકમાં ત્રિફળા અને તેના ઘટકો દ્વારા કૅન્સર સામે થતી પ્રતિકારની ક્રિયા; વિષવિજ્ઞાન (toxicology), ઔષધ આંતરક્રિયાઓ તથા વૃદ્ધત્વ અને ત્રિફળાની વિસ્તૃત સમજૂતી આપવામાં આવી છે. ઉપરાંત, આયુર્વેદમાં દર્શાવેલાં મહત્ત્વનાં કર્મ(Actions)ને અર્વાચીન સંશોધન સાથે સાંકળવામાં આવ્યાં છે. ત્રિફળા અને ઔષધ વનસ્પતિઓ સાથે સંયોજિત સ્વરૂપમાં બનાવાતાં સંયુક્ત ઔષધો અને તેમના ચિકિત્સીય ઉપયોગોનો અહીં ઉલ્લેખ કરાયો છે. વળી ચરક અને સુશ્રુત જેવા મહાન આયુર્વેદાચાર્યોના વિષયને સંપુષ્ટિ આપતાં અવતરણોનો પણ સમાવેશ કરવામાં આવ્યો છે.

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`સપનાનાં સોદાગર’ પુસ્તક મુંબઈ મહાનગરના વિકાસમાં યોગદાન આપનાર ચરિત્રોની કથા છે. ગુજરાતના સાહસિકોએ દાખવેલાં અપ્રતિમ સાહસનો માર્મિક ચિતાર આ ચરિત્રોમાંથી મળી રહે છે. મુંબઈ મહાનગરના વિકાસમાં પ્રાણ પૂરનારા ગુજરાતી મહાનુભાવોની આ કથા માત્ર દસ્તાવેજી ચિત્રણ જ નથી બ્લેક નવી પેઢીને પ્રેરણા આપનારી મુંબઈના વિકાસની યશોગાથા છે.

નાટક એ કલા છે, માત્ર કસબ નહીં. કલા (art) આપણી અભિવ્યક્તિમાં મૌલિકતા અને ઊંડાણ લાવે છે જ્યારે કસબ (craft) માત્ર બે ઘડી ઉપરછલ્લો આનંદપ્રમોદ કરાવે છે. જીવનમાં જરૂરિયાત બંનેની છે, આનંદ તેમજ ઊંડાણની, નાટ્યકલામાં પણ બંને જોઈએ – કલા અને કસબ. સૌ ઊગતા કલાકારોએ સમજવા જેવી વાત એ છે કે કસબ શીખી શકાય છે, કેળવી શકાય છે; જ્યારે કલા સહજ રીતે અંદરથી ઊગે છે, પાંગરે છે, વિકસે છે. કલા એ બીજ છે, મૂળ છે, થડ છે જ્યારે કસબ એ ડાળખી અને પાંદડાં છે. કલાની ચરમ પરાકાષ્ઠા તેનાં ઉમદા ફળફૂલોમાં, તેનાં સ્વાદ અને સુગંધમાં છે. જે કોઈની ભીતર કલાનાં આ બીજ કુદરતી રીતે પડ્યાં હશે, મૌલિક અભિવ્યક્તિનું ચમત્કારી રસાયણ ઘૂંટાયેલું હશે, એવા કલાકારો માટે આ પુસ્તક ચોક્કસ માર્ગદર્શક અને પ્રેરણાદાયી બની શકશે.

વીસમી સદીના પ્રારંભે આચાર્ય આનંદશંકર બાપુભાઈ ધ્રુવે ગુજરાતી ભાષા-સાહિત્યના વિકાસાર્થે અને કોઈ પણ વિદ્યાશાખામાં થતાં સંશોધન-વિવેચનથી અભ્યાસીઓ પરિચિત રહે તેમજ એ સદીની સાહિત્યિક, સાંસ્કૃતિક, ધાર્મિક અને રાજકીય ગતિવિધિનો પરિચય સમાજને મળી રહે એવા શુભાશયથી `વસન્ત’ સામયિકનો આરંભ કરેલો. `વસન્ત’ આડત્રીસ વર્ષ ચાલ્યું. એ માત્ર સર્જનાત્મક-વિવેચનાત્મક સાહિત્યનું સામયિક નહોતું; પરંતુ એમાં ઇતિહાસ, સમાજશાસ્ત્ર, અર્થશાસ્ત્ર, રાજકારણ, ધર્મ, વિજ્ઞાન, સંગીત ઇત્યાદિના લેખો પણ પ્રસિદ્ધ થતા. એ પ્રકાશિત સાહિત્ય વિશેની જાણકારી ભાવિ અભ્યાસીઓને મળી રહે તે માટે આ `વસન્તસૂચિ’ તૈયાર કરી છે. અહીં વર્ષવાર -વિષયવાર લેખસૂચિ સાથે લેખસૂચિ અને તખલ્લુસોનો સમાવેશ કર્યો છે. `આ જમાનામાં તો સૂચિ એ જ ગ્રંથનો દીવો છે.’ – એ ઉમાશંકર જોશીનું કથન સૂચિની મહત્તાને નિર્દેશ છે એની પ્રતીતિ આ સૂચિ દ્વારા પણ થશે.

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ગુજરાત વિશ્વકોશ ટ્રસ્ટની શ્રી ભદ્રંકર વિદ્યાદીપક વ્યાખ્યાનશ્રેણીનાં વ્યાખ્યાનોનો આ બીજો ગ્રંથ `જ્ઞાનાંજન-2’ શિક્ષણ, વિજ્ઞાન, સમાજ અને ધર્મચિંતન જેવા વિષયો પર તજ્જ્ઞોએ કરેલા અભ્યાસનું જ્ઞાનાંજન આપે છે. એમાં જદુનાથ સરકાર જેવા ઇતિહાસવિદ તેમજ રામમનોહર લોહિયા જેવા રાજપુરુષનાં વ્યક્તિત્વ, લેખન અને વિચારસૃષ્ટિનો પરિચય પ્રાપ્ત થાય છે. અમૂલના ભૂતકાળનો ઇતિહાસ અને `કલ્પસર પ્રકલ્પ’થી સર્જાનારું ભવિષ્ય – બંને વિશે એ ક્ષેત્રના ઊંડા અભ્યાસીઓએ વાત કરી છે. શિક્ષણ અને વિજ્ઞાન વિશેના લેખોમાં આજનાં શિક્ષણ અને વિજ્ઞાનની સ્થિતિ વિશે સ્વાધ્યાયનિષ્ઠ અવલોકનો મળે છે. જુદા જુદા શિક્ષણવિદોએ પોતાની રીતે શિક્ષણ વિશેની વિભાવના પ્રગટ કરી છે. ભારતીય લોકશાહી અને ગુજરાતની મહાજનપરંપરા વિશે અહીં અધિકૃત વ્યક્તિઓના લેખો સાંપડ્યા છે. હકીકતમાં આટલા બધા ભિન્ન ભિન્ન વિષયો વિશે એના તજ્જ્ઞોએ કરેલા અભ્યાસનું સુફળ અહીં પ્રાપ્ત થાય છે. જ્ઞાનાંજનના આ બીજા ભાગમાં વૈચારિક સમૃદ્ધિ, વર્તમાન પરિસ્થિતિ અંગે ગવેષણા, વિજ્ઞાનનાં વિવિધ પાસાંઓ વિશે અભ્યાસ, શિક્ષણની જુદી જુદી તરાહો વિશે ચિંતન ઉપરાંત ધર્મચિંતન અને ધ્યાનસાધના જેવા વિષયોને પણ આવરી લીધા છે અને આ વ્યાપક વિષય પરના ગંભીર અભ્યાસલેખો આ ગ્રંથને રસપ્રદ, માહિતીપૂર્ણ તથા સર્વજનભોગ્ય બનાવે છે.

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સાહિત્ય અને અન્ય માનવવિદ્યાઓના વિશાળ ગગનમાં મનોરમ મેઘધનુષ દૃષ્ટિગોચર થાય અને હૃદયમાં બ્રહ્મસ્વાદસહોદર આનંદ પ્રગટ થાય તેવો અનુભવ આ ગ્રંથના સાહિત્યાકાશમાં વિહરતા વાચકને થશે. આનું કારણ એ છે કે અહીં સાહિત્યની સર્જન-પ્રક્રિયાથી માંડીને પ્રવાસ, હાસ્ય, આત્મકથા, લોકસાહિત્ય, સંગીત અને સાહિત્યમાં વિજ્ઞાન સુધીના વિષયોની ચર્ચા કરવામાં આવી છે. જેમણે સમગ્ર જીવન અમુક કલાસ્વરૂપના સ્વાધ્યાય અને સર્જનમાં વ્યતીત કર્યું છે એવી અભ્યાસી વ્યક્તિઓએ અહીં એ સ્વરૂપ અંગેના એમના બહુમુલ્ય વિચારો વ્યક્ત કર્યા છે. આ દૃષ્ટિએ આ ગ્રંથ માનવવિદ્યાના અભ્યાસીઓ અને સંસ્કારી વાચકોને સાહિત્યની પ્રક્રિયા, સાહિત્યકૃતિઓ, સાહિત્યનો આસ્વાદ, ચિત્રકલા અને સ્થાપત્યકલા જેવી કલાઓના મહિમાનો સંતર્પક ખ્યાલ આપશે.

ગુજરાતી રંગભૂમિ રિદ્ધિ અને રોનક

ગુજરાતી રંગભૂમિની સ્થાપનાને દોઢસો વર્ષ પૂરાં થાય છે તે નિમિત્તે ગુજરાતની વ્યવસાયી રંગભૂમિની પ્રવૃત્તિની અધિકૃત સંકલિત માહિતી આપતો ગ્રંથ `ગુજરાત રંગભૂમિ : રિદ્ધિ અને રોનક’ તૈયાર થયો, તેના ફળ રૂપે અહીં નાટકો, નાટ્યસંસ્થાઓ, નાટ્યકારો, દિગ્દર્શકો, નટો, નટીઓ, સંગીતકારો, સન્નિવેશકારો અને પ્રેક્ષકો અંગે રસપ્રદ માહિતી સંપાદિત કરીને મૂકેલ છે. આ ગ્રંથમાં ગુજરાતી થિયેટરના ઇતિહાસની અનેક ખૂટતી કડીઓ ઉમેરીને `ગુજરાતી રંગભૂમિની રિદ્ધિ અને રોનક’ને ઉઠાવ આપતી જૂની રંગભૂમિનો ચહેરોમહોરો ઉપસાવી આપવાનો પ્રયાસ છે. નાટ્યરસિકો અને અભ્યાસીઓને તે ગમશે તેવી આશા છે.

સત્યની મુખોમુખ

મારે એવી દુનિયામાં જીવવું છે… “મારે એવી દુનિયામાં જીવવું છે જ્યાં કોઈને નિષ્કાસિત કરેલ ન હોય. હું કોઈને નિષ્કાસિત નહિ કરું. આવતી કાલે હું પેલા પાદરીને `તમે અમુકને બાપ્તિસ્મા નહિ આપી શકો, કેમ કે તમે સામ્યવાદના વિરોધી છો’ એમ નહિ કહું. બીજા પાદરીને એમ પણ નહિ કહું કે `તમારું સર્જન, તમારું કાવ્ય હું પ્રગટ નહિ કરું, કારણ કે તમે સામ્યવાદી છો.’ મારે એવી દુનિયામાં જીવવું છે જ્યાંના લોકો માત્ર માનવ હોય એને બીજું કોઈ વિશેષણ લાગ્યું ન હોય. કોઈ પણ પ્રકારના નિયમ, શબ્દ કે લેબલની માથાકૂટ કર્યા સિવાય માત્ર માનવ હોય તેવી દુનિયામાં હું જીવવા માગું છું. બધા જ પ્રકારના ચર્ચમાં બધા માણસો જઈ શકે, બધાં જ છાપાખાનામાં બધા જઈ શકે એમ હું િચ્છું છું. કોઈ મેયરની ઑફિસના દરવાજે કોઈક બીજાને પકડવા રાહ જોતું હોય અને બીજા કોઈકને દેશવટો આપતું હોય, એવું મારે જોઈતું નથી. દરેક જણ સ્મિત વેરતાં વેરતાં નગર સભાગૃહમાં જાય અને તેમાંથી નીકળે એમ હું ઇચ્છું છું…. બધા જ લોકો મુક્તતાથી બોલી શકે, વાંચી શકે, સાંભળી શકે અને વિકાસ પામી શકે. સંઘર્ષને દૂર કરવા માટેનો સંઘર્ષ કશુંક સાધન બને એ સિવાય હું સંઘર્ષનો અર્થ સમજી શક્યો નથી. સખત પગલાંને દૂર કરવા માટેનો સંઘર્ષ કશુંક સાધન બે એ સિવાય હું સંઘર્ષનો અર્થ સમજી શક્યો નથી. સખત પગલાંને દૂર કરવા માટે સખત પગલાં લેવાય તે સિવાય સખત પગલાંનો અર્થ હું સમજી શક્યો નથી. એક રસ્તો મેં લીધો છે; કેમ કે એ રસ્તો આપણને બધાને ચિરંતન બંધુત્વ સુધી લઈ જશે એમ હું માનું છું. હું તે સર્વવ્યાપી વિશાળ અજરામર સત્તતત્ત્વ માટે લડી રહ્યો છું…. આપણે સર્વલક્ષી પ્રેમ તરફ જઈ રહ્યા છીએ. મને ખબર છે કે આપણા સૌના માથા ઉપર બૉંબનો ભય ઝળુંબી રહ્યો છે, એવી ભયંકર ન્યૂક્લિયર વિપત્તિ આવવાની છે જે કોઈને જીવતા નહિ છોડે. આ પૃથ્વી ઉપર કશુંય રહેશે નહિ. વારુ, પણ તેનાથી મારી આશા ચલિત થશે નહિ. કટોકટીની આ ક્ષણે, અજંપાના આ અનુભવની વચ્ચે, આપણે જાણીએ છીએ કે જાગૃત દૃષ્ટિમાં સાચો પ્રકાશ પ્રવેશશે. આપણે સૌ એકબીજાને સમજતા થઈશું. આપણે સાથે આગળ વધીશું. આ આશાને કોઈ કચડી શક્શે નહિ.’ (પૃ. 218-219) પાબ્લો નેરુદા

માનવસંસ્કૃતિના અન્વેષણ અને નિરૂપણમાં લેખનકલા મહત્ત્વનું અંગ ગણાય છે. માનવીએ લેખનકલાની શોધ કરી ત્યારથી એને મહત્ત્વનું વ્યવહારનું સાધન ઉપલબ્ધ થયું તે ભાષાની વર્ણમાળા. આ વર્ણમાલા લખવાની રીત તે લિપિ. વિશ્વ અને ભારતના સંદર્ભમાં લિપિના વિકાસનાં સોપાનો, લિપિઓનું વર્ગીકરણ, વિવિધ લિપિઓની વર્ણમાળાઓ વચ્ચે આંતરિક સામ્ય, વિભિન્ન સંસ્કૃતિઓ અને ભાષાઓની લિપિઓની ઉત્પત્તિ, તે તે લિપિઓના પ્રાચીન લેખો વગેરે બાબતોની વૈજ્ઞાનિક પણ રસપ્રદ સચિત્ર માહિતી આ પુસ્તિકામાં આપવામાં આવી છે.

કેટલાક સાહિત્યિક વિવાદો

ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય સન્માન્ય વિદ્વાન ડૉ. ધીરુભાઈ ઠાકરે ભારે જહેમત લઈ દલપત-નર્મદથી રમેશ શુકલ અને જયંત કોઠારી સુધીના અનેક વિદ્વાનોએ સાહિત્યનાં વિવિધ પાસાં વિશે જે સાધક-બાધક ચર્ચાઓ વખતોવખત કરી છે તેનો પ્રમાણભૂત ચિતાર ઐતિહાસિક પરિપ્રેક્ષ્યમાં આપી તેનાથી એકંદરે ગુજરાતી ભાષા તથા સાહિત્યને કેવો લાભ થયો છે તેનું તટસ્થ ભૂમિકાએ રહીને અહીં સ્વસ્થ-દર્શન રજૂ કર્યું છે. ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યિક વિવાદો વિશે વ્રજલાલ દવેએ `ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યકોશ’ના ત્રીજા ભાગમાં એક નોંધ આપી છે, પરંતુ એ અગાઉ ડૉ. ધીરુભાઈએ તો આવા વિવાદોને અનુલક્ષીને વ્યાખ્યાનમાળા જ આપવાનું જે સ્વપ્ન સેવેલું તે જઈફ વયે પણ જે રીતે અહીં સિદ્ધ થયું છે તેનો આનંદ આપણને સૌને છે. પ્રશિષ્ટ સાહિત્યિક રુચિ ધરાવનારા આપણા આ વિદ્વાન પ્રસ્તુત વાદવિવાદોના નિમિત્તે આપણા સારસ્વતધર્મી અને સારસ્વતકર્મી વિદ્વાનોના મનોરાજ્યનો – એમની ચિંતન – મનનની ગતિવિધિનોયે જે નકશો આપે છે, એમના વ્યક્તિની જે ઝાંયઝલક દર્શાવે છે તે વળી આ ગ્રંથની આનુષંગિક – વધારાની ઉપલબ્ધિ છે. પ્રસ્તુત ગ્રંથ આપણા ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યના તલાવગાહી અધ્યયન અને મૂલ્યાંકનમાં પ્રત્યક્ષ યા પરોક્ષ રીતે ઉપકારક થશે એવી શ્રદ્ધા છે. સ્વર્ણિમ ગુજરાતના શુભ અવસરે એક સંનિષ્ઠ સારસ્વતે સાહિત્ય પ્રત્યેના સ્નેહથી જે આ મૂલ્યવાન ગ્રંથ-મુદ્રા સમર્પી છે તેનું આપણે સ્વાગત કરીએ છીએ. ચંદ્રકાન્ત

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Translating Gujarat: On Raising Visibility and Sharing Literary Wealth

Gujarat boasts a vibrantly active and industrious 24% of India’s overall seacoast. At 1,600 kilometers, this is the longest coastline of all Indian states and, since ancient times, has invited an unceasing influx of travelers, traders, and warriors from all over the world. The region connects with present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan via northbound land routes through the Sindh desert and what is presently known as Rajasthan. Its eastern mainland adjoins the rest of northern and central India. And in the south, it neighbors agriculturally productive and highly industrialized towns and cities like present-day, cosmopolitan Mumbai. The state’s topography is also filled with extremes and contrasts, from the salt deserts and marshes of Kutch in the northwest to the arid and semiarid scrublands of the western Kathiawad peninsula to the forested mountains and fertile plains in the southeast. Frequented by migratory tribes and clans of pastoralist warriors, pilgrims, and traders, these age-old routes and vastly diverse ecologies have allowed for a fascinating hybridization of cultures and languages from all around the country and the world. Even the name Gujarat originates from a tribal dynasty, the Gurjara-Pratiharas, who came from the north in the mid-eighth century to defeat the local rulers and rule the region along with much of northern India.

Given all of the above, the Gujarati language has never been a discrete or stable entity despite the pre-Independence attempts by British colonial officers, Gandhi, and other Indian nationalist leaders to codify it as such. As scholars like Riho Isaka, Samira Sheikh, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Rita Kothari, Aparna Kapadia, et al. have proved, the language is a richly complex linguistic system without fixed boundaries that has evolved through centuries of economic, political, and cultural interactions between speakers of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujari, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Portuguese, Dutch, Urdu, Sindhi, Hindi, and more.

This plurality enabled the flourishing of numerous ethnolinguistic identities within the region, which, in turn, have engendered diverse literatures and cultural artifacts through the centuries. Arguably, though, Gujarat had its major literary renaissance in the late 1800s. In part, this was due to cross-pollination with the growing number of literary translations from English and other Indian and European languages. And, in part, it was due to a sociopolitical awakening among Gujarat’s literati—most of whom were educated elites—driven by anti-colonialism, nationalism, and the independence movement. Both of these factors led to a profuse blossoming of the modern Gujarati short story, groundbreaking first novels and memoirs, literary criticism approached as a rigorous art form in itself, travelogues that became established as a literary genre, and modern poetic forms that deviated from all previous traditions. Writers, poets, critics, and dramatists like Dalpat, Narmad, Nilkanth Sr., Navalram Pandya, Nandshankar Mehta, and others led the initial charge.

During this pre-Independence peak era of literary output, the historical novel genre became notably dominant because it also grappled with identity-building, a sense of nationalism, and state formation. Gujarati historical novels of this time are, in themselves, sources of history—beyond the stories they contained, they were also modes of collective consciousness, social reform, and earnest attempts to transcend history itself. This pre-Independence rise of Gujarati historical fiction was deeply influenced by the likes of Scott, Tolstoy, Cervantes, and others. The first-ever Gujarati novel, Nandshankar Mehta’s Karan Ghelo, published in 1866, was historical fiction. Next came the canonical, near-historical novel quartet Sarasvatichandra,  by Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, published from 1887 to 1901. With over 150 characters and 2,000 pages, its length surpassed Tolstoy’s War and Peace and it preceded Proust’s In Search of Lost Time . Writers like K. M. Munshi and Dhumketu published several historical fiction series set in pre-British India. Jhaverchand Meghani painstakingly collected ancient oral folklore from different regional communities into multi-volume works. Gunvantrai Acharya created swashbuckling tales of the nautical adventures of Gujaratis who traveled far and wide.

Yet, the first-ever English (or any language) translations of a handful of these works have only emerged in the last decade or so. The rest remain like faint memories of long-buried treasures despite the recovery and preservation efforts of a few stalwarts in every generation. In particular, many works remain unknown even to the Gujarati readership because they came from marginalized Gujarati communities—for example, the Parsi Gujarati community, which was much smaller than the Hindu majority but produced relatively more books at the time.

We can draw a line connecting the aforementioned Acharya to his daughter, the celebrated and prolific author Varsha Adalja, whose fiction opened this collection. Crossroad is a multi-generational historical novel set during the time of India’s independence movement. Written when the author was in her seventies, the work is groundbreaking for several reasons. In particular, despite Gujarat giving India its two most well-known Independence leaders—Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah—and Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad being Gandhi’s political base, this is among the handful of contemporary Gujarati novels to carefully explore those volatile times. That it does so mostly through the lives and experiences of women is another singular feat. Adalja’s prose is colloquially lyrical and true to its time and place. It is also cinematic and immersive, while not shying away from the worst sociopolitical issues like the infanticide and rape of young girls. As I finish my translation of the novel, I am frequently struck by the depth of her craft and research. And I am reminded of how much we still need to learn about Gujarat during those decades beyond the lives and works of Gandhi, Jinnah, and the intelligentsia.

Immediately after independence from the British in 1947, Gujarat became part of Bombay State, and the Mahagujarat Movement for a separate state became the next big political drive. From 1947 to 1960, a Sanskritized version of the language became more standardized, relegating the many regional variations to dialect status. This is also when, as translator Meena Desai writes in her introduction to a ghazal by Befaam (the pen name of Barkat Ali Ghulam Husain Virani), the Gujarati ghazal form came into its own as part of the “burgeoning movement toward an independent identity of a much-colonized country.” Tracing its origins back to seventh-century Arabic love poetry, the ghazal had gathered Persian influences as it spread across South Asia in the twelfth century through Sufi mystics and Islamic Sultanate courtiers. Ghazals continue to enjoy popularity today—especially in Bollywood—in different languages and regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Even noted American poets have composed ghazals in English. Though difficult to translate because of their layered meanings, repetitions, and symbolism, Gujarati ghazals continue to flourish both in India and among the diaspora.

Shortly after Independence, another upheaval in Gujarat—particularly the large regions of Kathiawad and Saurashtra—involved the unification of more than two hundred independent princely states. In British India, these states had functioned more like allies rather than subordinates of the British Raj. The newly-formed Indian government pushed hard to integrate the nearly six hundred total princely states, which made up more than half the country. But legacies, traditions, and memories lingered on, as we see in an excerpt of Hasmukh Shah’s upcoming memoir, Dithu Mai . . . ( From the Margins of History ), translated by Mira Desai. Shah describes markers of a world that was quickly disappearing at that time—a Muslim ruler, his integrated team of Hindu and Muslim drivers from across caste and class hierarchies, and his garage filled with expensive and difficult-to-maintain British and American vehicles. From the child narrator’s innocent point of view, all of this is fascinating and impressive. We know the child grew up to become a key staff member for three separate Indian prime ministers. Undoubtedly, some of his diplomatic and negotiation skills had begun developing in those humble yet culturally syncretic beginnings.

That idea of cultural syncretism is also brought forth in Bharat Trivedi’s poem about Ahmedabad , an ancient city with a rich history named after a fifteenth-century Muzaffarid Sultan. As Mira Desai writes in her translator’s note, “Beyond the Hindu, Muslim, and Maratha dynasties and the British colonial rulers, there were also the Siddis, descendants of shipwrecked Africans, who bequeathed an intricate and famous carved stone screen (referenced here as Siddi Sayyed ni jali) to the city.” Though it has seen much communal tension in the last two decades, Ahmedabad has always been a political and intellectual hotbed, particularly during the Gandhi years. And while it is a constant muse for poets, writers, filmmakers, and songmakers, the walls of this city guard many untold stories still. I lived in the sprawling outskirts from mid-2014 to early 2020 and continue to explore its past and present in my own fiction. Once it grabs hold of your imagination, Ahmedabad remains a perpetual state of mind.

The third poet we’ve featured, Jayesh Jeevibahen Solanki, grew up in a village close to Ahmedabad and was a prominent, brave voice in the Gujarat Dalit Movement for most of his adult life. As translator Gopika Jadeja writes in her introductory note , “These poems give us a glimpse into a promising young mind, a poet and activist who envisioned a different future for Dalit and marginalized communities in India.” The objects described starkly in these two poems—stolen mangoes, torn kites, ice lollies for a rupee, a shirtless torso, and shoeless feet—all reveal the impoverishment that Solanki experienced throughout his life, which he tragically ended in October 2020. During my time in Ahmedabad, when I was fictionalizing the 2014 Dalit flogging incident in Una for a short story, I found a few videos of Solanki talking to journalists and reciting his poetry. His grounded convictions and passionate energy will forever haunt all who encountered him, virtually or in person.

It takes both a deep passion and a certain kind of energy to persist as a bilingual poet and writer, as Pratishtha Pandya writes in her personal essay, “ Writing in Mother Tongue and an Other Tongue .” Pandya traces her lifelong encounters with different languages and literatures to understand how her translation practice made her “more attuned to the sounds, nuances, and even limitations of the languages I was working with.” More profoundly, she investigates how there are things she can write in the “other tongue” that she cannot approach in her mother tongue because of cultural conditioning. This linguistic hopscotching about may feel ungainly at times, she writes. Still, there is joy in the spontaneous discoveries it can yield for those willing to jump past boundary constructs and land on just the right words to express themselves fully.

Sachin Ketkar also talked about the pleasures and challenges of bilingualism in my interview with him. As a Marathi-speaking Maharashtrian who grew up speaking Gujarati in Gujarat and working with English as a scholar and academic, Dr. Ketkar experienced “subtractive bilingualism”—a phenomenon I have also experienced since leaving India in 1991 but had not been able to name until this conversation. This is when, as he told me, the acquisition of an elite and powerful language like English results in the depletion and deprivation of linguistic, cultural, and creative resources of the language(s) in which one is raised. We discussed his own literary and translation journey and how intricate questions of cultural identity, tradition, modernity, and relevance stared at him with every step of that journey. Translation, for him, is primarily a creative process of negotiating through those questions. As he also shares in the interview: while creative bilingualism or multilingualism has been additive in nature for literatures in other Indian languages (e.g. Tamil, Hindi, Bangla, Marathi, and more), it has not been the same with Gujarati literature for various reasons.

In a country with so many languages, translation is, as Rita Kothari put it in my interview with her, “an un-self-conscious act [that’s] in the air, in the cosmos. And it’s hidden by being most proximate and natural.” As a multilingual scholar, translator, academic, and author, she has written extensively about Gujarati literature and translation theory. She has also co-translated, with Abhijit Kothari, the most famous historical fiction in our literary canon: K. M. Munshi’s Patan trilogy. Here, we discussed the evolution and craft of Gujarati literature in translation . This is my third interview with Dr. Kothari, and one of the recurring themes is how she sees languages as sociopolitical constructs that are, beyond their uses for communication, about power and identity. Given the evolutionary aspects I described above, this is truer than ever for the Gujarati language. In closing, Dr. Kothari recommends another great Gujarati-to-English translator, to whom we turn next.

Tridip Suhrud is renowned for his Gandhian scholarship. He is also the only Gujarati-to-English translator who has been brave enough to take on the work of translating the canonical Gujarati historical quartet, Sarasvatichandra , which I mentioned earlier. In this interview , we discussed some of his milestone translations, and I asked him where Gujarati literature stands with respect to literatures from other Indian languages in terms of creativity, innovation, diversity, volume, and recognition. He reflected on the Gujarati intellectual tradition overall, and said that “. . . we in Gujarat [ . . . ] have not thought about ourselves in our tongue with as much rigor and originality as we ought to have, or the seriousness with which language communities like Marathi, Bangla, Kannada, Tamil, and Malayalam have done.” Regarding the Gujarati translation scene, he has also discussed elsewhere how we Gujaratis are very good at bringing literary wealth from other cultures into ours, but not so good at sharing our own wealth.

Though that last bit was also a good-humored dig at the age-old Gujarati stereotype as the mercantile, business-minded community, when we look at the three Gujarati-to-English translations published in 2022 (excluding my own Dhumketu translation, which was the US edition of the 2020 Indian publication), it bears out. In her omnibus review , Shalvi Shah writes that they were “all written and translated by men and the only literary works translated from Gujarati to English in India in 2022 were published and are set more than five decades ago.” As a young translator herself, she calls out the difficulties of finding daring, new, experimental works. Sadly, this latter point also bears out, although I’m grateful that we have rare translations of books by a Gujarati Parsi and a Gujarati Dalit among those three.

Earlier, I mentioned a literary renaissance period for Gujarati literature as the independence movement got underway. The next big turning point came in the post-Gandhian era of the 1950s and 1960s with avant-garde writers like Mohammad Mankad and Suresh Joshi. Though Joshi was trained and well-read in Western literary traditions, he chose to write in Gujarati. To date, there has been no other who can match Joshi’s experimental aesthetics and prolific works of fiction, literary prose, literary criticism, and translations from several languages. In his 1992 essay collection, Imaginary Homelands , Salman Rushdie writes this about meeting Joshi:

To go on in this vein: it strikes me that, at the moment, the greatest area of friction in Indian literature has nothing to do with English literature, but with the effects of the hegemony of Hindi on the literatures of other Indian languages, particularly other North Indian languages. I recently met the distinguished Gujarati novelist Suresh Joshi. He told me that he could write in Hindi but felt obliged to write in Gujarati because it was a language under threat. Not from English, or the West: from Hindi. In two or three generations, he said, Gujarati could easily die. And he compared it, interestingly, to the state of the Czech language under the yoke of Russian, as described by Milan Kundera.

(Joshi’s stance predates that of contemporary writers like J. M. Coetzee, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and Minae Mizumura, who have all also made the political choice to write against the hegemony of English by first publishing their books in Spanish, Gikuyu, and Japanese respectively.)

Today, there is still a language pyramid in India where Bangla, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, and others sit at the top. The language and history scholars I mentioned earlier have explored the whys and wherefores in their various books and papers. Globalization continues to diminish the ranks of Gujarati readers and writers by increasing the dominance of English. A quick check on Amazon India shows that, beyond academic texts, the Gujarati-language bestsellers are self-help and how-to books translated from English alongside the perennial favorite books about Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. With each generation, the body of Gujarati literature seems to become less abundant, vibrant, and innovative than it was during Joshi’s time. The Indian government and a handful of Gujarati literary institutions do what they can. For example, in 2007, the Gujarati Sahitya Akademi created a prize to recognize and encourage Gujarati authors and poets below the age of thirty . At last count, there are at least twenty different Gujarati literary awards . The Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, the oldest literary organization, has at least thirty different literary awards .

And yet, consider this: Gujarati has fifty-six million speakers worldwide. It is the sixth most spoken language in South Asia and the third most spoken language in the South Asian American diaspora . By some accounts, the Gujarati diaspora is spread over 125 countries . But my 2022 translation, The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories by Dhumketu, was the first ever Gujarati-to-English literary translation to be published in the US. It was also the first ever book-length translation of this modern Gujarati short story pioneer, who published nearly twenty-six volumes of short stories alone.

For any literary culture to thrive, its readership must grow within its own societies and beyond with more translations into and from the language. This first-ever collection at Words Without Borders is a cultural intervention to bring these works to a wider readership, and to also help raise visibility within Gujarati society, especially the global diaspora. For translators from under-represented languages like ours, the act of translation can also be a mode of recovery and reclamation. Together, this small sample reveals rich glimpses of the diverse, complex, and ever-evolving literary traditions of Gujarat. It is an effort to share some of our literary wealth and celebrate our Gujarati ways of being.

Copyright © 2023 by Jenny Bhatt. All rights reserved.

Jenny Bhatt

Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, book critic, and the founder of Desi Books, a global multimedia forum for South Asian literature.

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Words Without Borders: Gujarati Literature in Translation (guest-edited)

I’m honored to guest-edit the first-ever Gujarati literature in translation feature at Words Without Borders . Prior to this, they had featured one other South Asian language in a similar manner: Tamil (guest-edited by the late, great Lakshmi Holmström.) My huge gratitude to all the authors and translators who contributed to this first-ever collection in the US. And my thanks, also, to the WWB team: Eric Becker, Susan Harris, and Isabella Corletto, for all their editorial help and guidance.

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Translating Gujarat: A Literary Intervention

Crossroad (novel excerpt) by Varsha Adalja (tr. Jenny Bhatt)

Varsha Adalja is one of the foremost contemporary Gujarati writers in India. A novelist and a playwright, she has published forty books, including twenty novels and seven story collections. Some of her works have been adapted for television and stage. She has also written several essay collections and travelogues. Her works have won many literary awards.  Crossroad , her most recent novel, was published in 2016 and is being translated into English by Jenny Bhatt. It is a magnum opus historical novel spanning three generations and five decades.

Translator: Jenny Bhatt ( details here .)

To Loved Ones (poetry) by Jayesh Jeevibahen Solanki (tr. Gopika Jadeja)

Jayesh Jeevibahen Solanki was a poet, theater artist, and Dalit rights activist. He was one of the prominent faces associated with the Una Dalit Movement in Gujarat, India. Coming from very modest means, he had tried to make a living by teaching theater workshops and doing factory work. The pandemic worsened his financial struggles and, given his ongoing depression, he committed suicide in October 2020. Several of his poems have been translated by both professional translators and friends. A collection, titled  વળાંક  ( A Bend in the Road ), was published posthumously in December 2020.

Translator: Gopika Jadeja is a bilingual poet and translator writing in English and Gujarati. She is the Editor-at-Large (Singapore) for  Wasafiri , an editor at  PR&TA , and an editor for the performance-publishing project “Five Issues.” A recipient of the Charles Wallace Scholarship for Creative Writing, Gopika’s poetry and translations have been published in many international venues.

The Garage and Rahemat Khan (memoir excerpt) by Hasmukh Shah (tr. Mira Desai)

Hasmukh Shah had an extraordinary life and career in government, the public sector, and as a private citizen. He was joint secretary for three consecutive prime minister’s offices, was involved with multiple conservation and higher learning institutions and organizations, and personally witnessed several historical events—from being in the Prime Minister’s plane that crashed in Jorhat in 1978 to the Tiananmen Square protests and more—which he captured in his Gujarati memoir,  Dithu Mai… . The English edition of From the Margins of History is forthcoming.

Translator: Mira Desai is a translator from Gujarati, currently working on her eighth book. Her translations have been published in  Indian Literature ,  Words without Borders ,  91 st  Meridian ,  The Massachusetts Review , etc. She previously spent a lifetime in pharmaceuticals. She now volunteers with underprivileged children, paints, and travels.

Ahmedabad (poetry) by Bharat Trivedi (tr. Mira Desai)

Bharat Trivedi is an Indian-born poet, author, essayist, and lecturer. He has poetry, prose, and essays published in numerous literary magazines and journals in India and on creative poetry boards in the US. He has published five novels and ten collections of poems; including  Love Poems to the Tigress , his first collection of poems written for an English-reading audience. He was raised and educated in India and migrated to the United States in 1977. Bharat lives in Tavares, Florida, with his wife Medha.

Writing in Mother Tongue and an Other Tongue (essay) by Pratishtha Pandya

Dr. Pratishtha Pandya is a bilingual poet and translator working across Gujarati and English. The first collection of her Gujarati poems  ળળળ…  has been published by Navjeevan Samprat. She currently works as an editor and writer with People’s Archive of Rural India.

On the Evolution and Craft of Gujarati Literature in Translation: An Interview with Dr. Rita Kothari by Jenny Bhatt

Dr. Rita Kothari is a professor of English and the director of the master’s program in English at Ashoka University in India. A multilingual scholar and translator, her work spans the disciplines of literature, anthropology, history, sociology, linguistics, and more. While her focus is on the western Indian subcontinent, specifically the Gujarat, Kutch, and Sindh regions, she is also looked upon as a thought leader in the discipline of linguistic and cultural translation and language politics, especially with respect to marginalized communities, across the country. Translation is the prism through which she sees the Indian context, whether it is with respect to the Partition, Bollywood, or the various intersecting hierarchies of religion, caste, class, gender, and sexuality.

Gujarati Books in Translation: An Omnibus Review by Shalvi Jaxay Shah

Shalvi Jaxay Shah is a writer, aspiring translator, and critic living between Ahmedabad and New York City. She has been a recipient of the Teaching Fellowship at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she got her MFA in fiction and translation. Her fiction, nonfiction, and criticism can be found in or is forthcoming from  Epiphany ,  Wasafiri ,  Columbia Journal , the  Desi Books  platform, the  New York Times , and elsewhere. 

On Gandhi, Translation, and the Gujarati Intellectual Tradition: An Interview with Dr. Tridip Suhrud by Jenny Bhatt

It would be no exaggeration to call Dr. Tridip Suhrud one of our greatest living Gujarati scholars and translators. Based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, he has dedicated a good part of his career to interpreting and translating works by or related to Mahatma Gandhi during tenures at various educational and heritage institutions. It is largely due to his scholarship and leadership that we have a vast digitized archive of these works and a more nuanced understanding of Gandhi, who remains a complex, often polarizing, international figure. Suhrud has also translated the longest and most influential canonical work of Gujarati literature: the nineteenth-century classic,  Sarasvatichandra , by Govardhanram Madhavaram Tripathi (G. M. T.).

All It Seems (ghazal excerpt) by ‘Befaam’ (tr. Meena Desai)

Barkat Ali Ghulam Husain Virani , known by his pen name Befaam, was born on November 25, 1923 in Ghanghali village in the Bhavnagar district. He was interested in literature from the age of fourteen, when he wrote his first ghazal. He was taught poetry by Qismat Qureshi and left his studies to participate in the 1942 Quit India Movement. In 1945, he moved to Mumbai upon the suggestion of  Shayda , who has been called “Ghazal Samrat” for his dedication to the genre in Gujarati, and married his oldest daughter Ruqaiyya in 1952. He died in Mumbai in 1994. His ghazal books include  Mansar  (1960),  Ghata  (1970),  Pyas  (1980), and  Parab  (1997). He also wrote short stories, scripts, and a novel, and was associated with Gujarati cinema. He appeared in the Gujarati film  Mangalfera  (1949) and wrote lyrics for several songs that appeared in films.

Translator: Meena Desai has translated Gujarati poetry since the 1980s. Her doctoral research examined communication in British drama, she worked in the telecommunications industry, and she still pursues communication across cultures. She has translated over seventy Gujarati  ghazals  to highlight little-known but excellent contributions to the genre. She also focuses on translating the multifaceted lyrics of Narasinh Mehta, a fifteenth-century Bhakti poet, celebrating joy in the eternal human-divine intercourse by blending the spiritual and the physical into a higher realm. Her work is featured in  Two Lines: Counterfeits  and  Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry.

Into English: Sachin Ketkar on Bilingual Translation: An Interview with Dr. Sachin C. Ketkar by Jenny Bhatt

Within the Gujarati literary translation ecosystem, we have a handful of multilingual writers and translators who have worked for decades to bring marginalized literature into the mainstream. Sachin C. Ketkar is an English professor at the Faculty of Arts of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, Gujarat. He is also a scholar of Gujarati and Marathi literature, particularly poetry. In addition to having multiple poetry collections published in both Marathi and English, he has published many critical works on literature from both of those languages. He also translates from Gujarati into English and from Marathi into English.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Ketkar discusses his literary journeys across languages and cultures while dealing with the challenges of subtractive bilingualism. We also dive deep into the current state of Gujarati literature, particularly in translation. And we explore how industry gatekeeping further marginalizes the already-marginalized Gujarati authors and their translators. Along the way, Dr. Ketkar generously references many contemporary and classic Gujarati and Marathi writers, who deserve to be way more well-known and well-read.

I particularly appreciated Dr. Ketkar’s point about how multilingual creative writers in India who take on literary translation work are working to overcome the predicament of subtractive bilingualism. In the process, they are expanding the archive of Indian writing in English in radical ways. As this insightful conversation shows, Dr. Ketkar has also been doing exactly that with his many contributions across genres, languages, and cultures. Listen/read here .

Translating Gujarat: On Raising Visibility and Sharing Literary Wealth: Closing Essay by Jenny Bhatt

This is my closing essay for the Gujarati literature in translation collection that I’ve had the honor of guest-editing at Words Without Borders . I share the journey of Gujarati literature from its renaissance period, as I see it, just before India’s independence to now. Along the way, I thread the individual translations and translator interviews we have featured in this diverse collection. And I close with some personal thoughts:

“For any literary culture to thrive, its readership must grow within its own societies and beyond with more translations into and from the language. This first-ever collection at  Words Without Borders  is a cultural intervention to bring these works to a wider readership, and to also help raise visibility within Gujarati society, especially the global diaspora. For translators from under-represented languages like ours, the act of translation can also be a mode of recovery and reclamation. Together, this small sample reveals rich glimpses of the diverse, complex, and ever-evolving literary traditions of Gujarat. It is an effort to share some of our literary wealth and celebrate our Gujarati ways of being.”

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A conversation with the author of 'there's always this year'.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to Hanif Abdurraqib about the new book There's Always This Year . It's a mix of memoir, essays, and poems, looking at the role basketball played in Abdurraqib's life.

SCOTT DETROW, HOST:

The new book "There's Always This Year" opens with an invitation. Here's a quote - "if you please imagine with me, you are putting your hand into my open palm, and I am resting one free hand atop yours. And I am saying to you that I would like to commiserate here and now about our enemies. We know our enemies by how foolishly they trample upon what we know as affection, how quickly they find another language for what they cannot translate as love." And what follows from that is a lyrical book about basketball but also about geography, luck, fate and many other things, too. It's also about how the career arc of basketball great LeBron James is woven through the life of the book's author, Hanif Abdurraqib, who joins us now. Welcome back to the show.

HANIF ABDURRAQIB: Thank you for having me again, Scott. It's really wonderful to be here.

DETROW: You know, I love this book so much, but I'm not entirely sure how to describe it. It's part memoir, part meditation, part poetry collection, part essay collection. How do you think about this book?

ABDURRAQIB: You know, it's funny. I've been running into that too early on in the process and now - still, when I'm asked to kind of give an elevator pitch. And I think really, if I'm being honest, that feels like an achievement to me because so much of...

DETROW: Yeah.

ABDURRAQIB: ...My intent with the book was working against a singular aboutness (ph) or positioning the book as something that could be operating against neat description because I think I was trying to tie together multiple ideas, sure, through the single - singular and single lens of basketball. But I kind of wanted to make basketball almost a - just a canvas atop which I was laying a lot of other concerns, be it mortality or place or fatherhood and sonhood (ph) in my case. I think mostly it's a book about mortality. It's a book about the passage of time and attempting to be honest with myself about the realities of time's passing.

DETROW: Yeah, it seems to me like it could also be a book about geography, about being shaped by the place you grew up in and that moment where you choose to stay or leave, or maybe leave and come back. And I was hoping you could read a passage that that deals directly with that for us.

ABDURRAQIB: Of course. Yeah. This is from the third quarter or the third act of the of the book.

(Reading) It bears mentioning that I come from a place people leave. Yes, when LeBron left, the reactions made enough sense to me, I suppose. But there was a part of me that felt entirely unsurprised. People leave this place. There are Midwestern states that are far less discernible on a blank map, sure. Even with an understanding of direction, I am known to mess up the order of the Dakotas. I've been known to point at a great many square-like landscapes while weakly mumbling Nebraska. And so I get it. We don't have it too bad. People at least claim to know that Ohio is shaped like a heart - a jagged heart, a heart with sharp edges, a heart as a weapon. That's why so many people make their way elsewhere.

DETROW: What does Ohio, and specifically, what does Columbus mean to you and who you are?

ABDURRAQIB: I think at this stage in my life, it's the one constant that keeps me tethered to a version of myself that is most recognizable. You know, you don't choose place. Place is something that happens to you. Place is maybe the second choice that is made for you after the choice of who your parents are. But if you have the means and ability, there are those of us who at some point in our lives get to choose a place back. And I think choosing that place back doesn't happen once. I mean, it happens several times. It's like any other relationship. You are choosing to love a place or a person as they are, and then checking in with if you are capable of continuing to love that place or person as they evolve, sometimes as they evolve without you or sometimes as you evolve without them. And so it's a real - a math problem that is always unfolding, someone asking the question of - what have I left behind in my growth, or what has left me behind in a growth that I don't recognize?

So, you know, Columbus doesn't look the way - just from an architectural standpoint - does not look the way it looked when I was young. It doesn't even look the way it looked when I moved back in 2017. And I have to kind of keep asking myself what I can live with. Now that, for me, often means that I turn more inward to the people. And I began to think of the people I love as their own architecture, a much more reliable and much more sturdy architecture than the architecture that is constantly under the siege of gentrification. And that has been grounding for me. It's been grounding for me to say, OK, I can't trust that this building will stay. I can't trust that this basketball court will stay. I can't trust that this mural or any of it will stay. But what I do know is that for now, in a corner of the city or in many corners of the city, there are people who know me in a very specific way, and we have a language that is only ours. And through that language, we render each other as full cities unto ourselves.

DETROW: Yeah. Can you tell me how you thought about basketball more broadly, and LeBron James specifically, weaving in and out of these big questions you're asking? - because in the first - I guess the second and third quarter, really, of the book - and I should say, you organize the book like a basketball game in quarters. You know, you're being really - you're writing these evocative, sad scenes of how, like you said, your life was not unfolding the way you wanted it in a variety of ways. And it's almost like LeBron James is kind of floating through as a specter on the TV screen in the background, keeping you company in a moment where it seems to me like you really needed company. Like, how did you think about your relationship with basketball and the broader moments and the broader thoughts in those moments?

ABDURRAQIB: Oh, man, that's not only such a good question, but that's actually - that's such a good image of LeBron James on the TV in the background because it was that. In a way, it was that in a very plainly material, realistic, literal sense because when I was, say, unhoused - right? - I...

ABDURRAQIB: ...Would kind of - you know, sometimes at night you kind of just wander. You find a place, and you walk through downtown. And I remember very clearly walking through downtown Columbus and just hearing the Cavs games blaring out of open doors to bars or restaurants and things like that, and not having - you know, I couldn't go in there because I had no money to buy anything, and I would eventually get thrown out of those places.

So, you know, I think playing and watching basketball - you know, even though this book is not, like, a heavy, in-depth basketball biography or a basketball memoir, I did spend a lot of time watching old - gosh, so much of the research for this book was me watching clips from the early - mid-2000s of...

ABDURRAQIB: ...LeBron James playing basketball because my headspace while living through that was entirely different. It's like you said, like LeBron was on a screen in the background of a life that was unsatisfying to me. So they were almost, like, being watched through static. And now when I watch them, the static clears, and they're a little bit more pleasureful (ph). And that was really joyful.

DETROW: LeBron James, of course, left the Cavs for a while. He took his talents to South Beach, went to the Miami Heat. You write - and I was a little surprised - that you have a really special place in your heart for, as you call them, the LeBronless (ph) years and the way that you...

ABDURRAQIB: Oh, yeah.

DETROW: ...Interacted with the team. What do you think that says? And why do you think you felt that way and feel that way about the LeBronless Cavs?

ABDURRAQIB: I - you know, I'm trying to think of a softer word than awful. But you know what? They were awful.

DETROW: (Laughter).

ABDURRAQIB: I mean they were (laughter) - but that did not stop them from playing this kind of strange level of hard, at times, because I think it hit a point, particularly in the late season, where it was clear they were giving in and tanking. But some of those guys were, like, old professionals. There's, like, an older Baron Davis on that team. You know, some of these guys, like, did not want to be embarrassed. And...

ABDURRAQIB: ...That, to me, was miraculous to watch where - because they're still professionals. They're still NBA players. And to know that these guys were playing on a team that just could not win games - they just didn't have the talent - but they individually did not want to - at least did not want to give up the appearance that they weren't fighting, there's something beautiful and romantic about that to me.

DETROW: It makes a lot of sense why you end the book around 2016 when the Cavs triumph and bring the championship to Cleveland. But when it comes to the passage of time - and I'll say I'm the exact same age as you, and we're both about the same age as LeBron. When it comes to the passage of time, how do you present-day feel about LeBron James watching the graying LeBron James who's paying so much attention to his lower back? - because I don't have anywhere near the intense relationship with him that you do. But, I mean, I remember reading that Sports Illustrated when it came out. I remember watching him in high school on ESPN, and I feel like going on this - my entire adult life journey with him. And I feel like weirdly protective of LeBron James now, right? Like, you be careful with him.

ABDURRAQIB: Yeah.

DETROW: And I'm wondering how you think about him today and what that leads your brain to, given this long, long, long relationship you have with him.

ABDURRAQIB: I find myself mostly anxious now about LeBron James, even though he is still - I think he's still playing at a high level. I mean, I - you know, I think that's not a controversial statement. But I - while he is still playing at a high level, I do - I'm like everyone else. So I'm kind of aware that it does seem like parts of him - or at least he's paying a bit more attention to the aches that just come with aging, right?

ABDURRAQIB: I have great empathy and sympathy for an athlete who's dedicated their life to a sport, who is maybe even aware that their skills are not what they once were, but still are playing because that's just what they've done. And they are...

ABDURRAQIB: ...In some cases, maybe still in pursuit of one more ring or one more legacy-building exploit that they can attach to their career before moving on to whatever is next. And so I don't know. And I don't think LeBron is at risk of a sharp and brutal decline, but I do worry a bit about him playing past his prime, only because I've never seen him be anything but miraculous on the court. And to witness that, I think, would be devastating in some ways.

And selfishly, I think it would signal some things to me personally about the limits of my own miracle making, not as a basketball player, of course, but as - you know, because a big conceit of the book is LeBron and I are similar in age, and we have - you know, around the same age and all this. And I think a deep flaw is that I've perhaps attached a part of his kind of miraculous playing beyond what people thought to my own idea about what miracle is as you age.

And so, you know, to be witness to a decline, a sharp decline would be fascinating and strange and a bit disorienting. But I hope it doesn't get there. You know, I hope - I would like to see him get one more ring. I don't know when it's going to come or how it's going to come, but I would like to see him get one more. I really would. My dream, selfishly, is that it happens again in Cleveland. He'll come back here and team up with, you know, some good young players and get one more ring for Cleveland because I think Cavs fans, you know, deserve that to the degree that anyone deserves anything in sports. That would be a great storybook ending.

DETROW: The last thing I want to ask about are these vignettes and poems that dot the book in praise of legendary Ohio aviators. Can you tell me what you were trying to do there? And then I'd love to end with you reading a few of them for me.

ABDURRAQIB: Yeah. I'm so glad you asked about that. I haven't gotten to talk about that as much, and that - those were the first things I wrote for the book. I wrote 30 of them...

DETROW: Really?

ABDURRAQIB: ...I think. And of course, they all didn't make it. But that was kind of an exercise, like a brain exercise. And I was trying to play with this idea of starting out with folks who were literally aviators. So it begins with John Glenn and Lonnie Carmen, and then working further and further away from aviation in a literal sense, much like the book is working further and further away from, say, basketball in this concrete sense - because ascension in my mind isn't just moving upward, it is expansion, too. It is, I think, any directional movement away from where your position is. And so I got to be kind of flexible with ideas of ascent and growth and moving upward.

DETROW: And the last aviator you did this for was you. And I'm hoping you can read what you wrote about yourself to end this.

ABDURRAQIB: Oh, gosh. OK, yeah. This is Hanif Abdurraqib, Columbus, Ohio, 1983 to present. (Reading) Never dies in his dreams. In his dreams, he is infinite, has wings, feathers that block the sun. And yet in the real living world, the kid has seen every apocalypse before it arrives, has been the architect of a few bad ones. Still wants to be alive most days. Been resurrected so many damn times, no one is surprised by the magic trick anymore.

DETROW: That's Hanif Abdurraqib, author of the new book "There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension." Thank you so much.

ABDURRAQIB: Thank you, Scott. I really appreciate it.

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An expert's guide to Frank Auerbach: three must-read books (and a film) on the German-British painter

All you ever wanted to know about auerbach, from a biography by one of his sitters to a collection of essays about his drawings—selected by the courtauld gallery curator barnaby wright.

Out of the limelight: an early photo of the famously reclusive Auerbach in his studio Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo

• Click here for more reading lists on the world's greatest artists The Berlin-born, London-based artist Frank Auerbach is famously reclusive, rarely doing interviews and for much of his career has worked away diligently in his London studio. He is associated with the School of London alongside friends and peers such as Francis Bacon, Leon Kossoff and Lucian Freud. Kossoff sat for Auerbach and is one of the intimate charcoal drawings from the late 1950s and early 60s that have been brought together at the Courtauld Gallery in London for an exhibition titled Frank Auerbach: the Charcoal Heads (until 27 May). The exhibition’s curator Barnaby Wright has selected three books and a film to help us get closer to the life and work of Frank Auerbach.

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Frank Auerbach (2022 revised edition) by William Feaver

“This book is the comprehensive account of Auerbach’s work to date. As well as being a writer on art, William Feaver has sat for Auerbach over many years and his introduction and interview with the artist share a wealth of insights. The book’s extensive catalogue section illustrates all the paintings and large-scale drawings Auerbach has made—more than 1,000 at the time of publication. Looking through these gives a sense of how Auerbach’s intense scrutiny over decades of a small number of sitters and areas of London he knows intimately, has given rise to a huge variety of paintings and drawings.”

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Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People (2022), edited by Mark Hallett and Catherine Lampert

“Drawing has always been fundamental to Auerbach’s way of working. Surprisingly, this is the first book to focus specifically on his drawings. It takes the form of a series of essays by a range of writers who approach Auerbach’s drawing practice from different vantage points. These range from essays that look in detail at the moves, marks and layers of Auerbach’s drawings, to others that situate his work in expanded historical and cultural contexts.”

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Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting (2019) by Catherine Lampert

“Catherine Lampert has been a sitter for Auerbach for over 40 years. She has written extensively on his art and organised his major retrospective exhibitions. This important book is rooted in the numerous conversations she has had with Auerbach and offers a richly detailed and illuminating account of his art and life. The book brings you close to the artist whilst offering a deeply informed account of the development of his art and ideas.”

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Frank Auerbach: To the Studio (2001 film), co-produced by Jake Auerbach and Hannah Rothschild

“Jake Auerbach has made a series of remarkable films about art and artists. This is one of two films he has made about his father (the other being Frank , 2015)—and both are as important as anything written on Auerbach for deepening our understanding of the artist and his work. To the Studio features interviews not only with Auerbach but also with his small group of long-term sitters. Hannah Rothschild’s interview with Auerbach elicits responses that are both insightful and deeply poignant.”

• Frank Auerbach: the Charcoal Heads , Courtauld Gallery, London, until 27 May

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પ્રસ્તાવના:  વર્તમાન વૈજ્ઞાનિક યુગમાં પ્રિન્ટીંગ પ્રેસના આવિષ્કારને કારણે મોટી માત્રામાં પુસ્તકો છપાય છે. હવે તો દરેક જગ્યાએ પુસ્તકાલય ખુલી છે. ત્યાં પર સારી સારી પુસ્તકો વાંચવા માટે મળી જાય છે. સંપન્ન લોકો હવે મનગમતી પુસ્તકો ખરીદી શકે છે. વિભિન્ન પ્રકારની પુસ્તકો બજારોમાં ખૂબ સરળતાથી ઉપલબ્ધ થઈ જાય છે.

મારી રુચિઃ  મને પુસ્તકોથી ખૂબ પ્રેમ છે. મને પુસ્તકો વાંચવાનો ખૂબ જ શોખ છે. મેં ઘર પર એક નાનું પુસ્તકાલય બનાવી રાખઅયું છે. એમાં વિભિન્ન પ્રકારની સારી-સારી પુસ્તકો છે. હું પોતાના ખિસ્સાખર્ચ માટે પૈસાઓથી હંમેશાં પુસ્તકો ખરીદું છું. પુસ્તકોના અભ્યાસથી નવીન અનુભવ થાય છે. સામાન્ય જ્ઞાનની વૃદ્ધિ થાય છે. અનેક પ્રકારના નવીન વિચાર વાંચવા મળે છે, જેમાંથી નવી શિક્ષા પ્રાપ્ત થાય છે. મારી માતાજીએ મને વિશ્વપ્રસિદ્ધ પુસ્તકો વિશે બતાવ્યું. એમાં એક પુસ્તક મહાત્મા ગાંધીની આત્મકથા પણ છે. એમણએ મને એને વાંચવા માટે પ્રોત્સાહિત કર્યો. હું પોતાની ક્લાસની પુસ્તકો સિવાય દિવસમાં બે-ત્રણ કલાક અન્ય જ્ઞાનવર્ધક પુસ્તકો વાંચું છું.

મારી પાસે અનેક પુસ્તકો છે. એમને હું ખૂબ પ્રેમ કરું છું. હું નાની-નાની વાર્તાઓ, નવલકથા, નાટક તેમજ કવિતાઓ વગેરે વાંચવાનું પસંદ કરું છું. પરંતુ મારી સૌથી પ્રિય પુસ્તક છે - મહાત્મા ગાંધીની આત્મકથા'. ગાંધીજીની આત્મકથાને મેં અનેક વાર વાંચી છે. છતાં પણ એને વારંવાર વાંચવાની ઇચ્છા થાય છે.

વર્ણન:  મહાત્મા ગાંધીએ પોતાની “આત્મકથા'માં પોતાના જીવનની અનેક રોમાંચકારી ઘટનાઓ અને કઠિન પરિસ્થિતિઓનું વર્ણન કર્યું. ગાંધીજીએ કોઈ સંકોચ વગર પોતાની કમીઓ તેમજ ભૂલોનું વર્ણન આ પુસ્તકમાં કર્યું છે.

પુસ્તકથી એમની સત્યતા, કર્મઠતા, સદાચારિતા, સર્વધર્મ સમભાવની ભાવના વગેરેની શિક્ષા મળે છે.

ઉપસંહાર:  મહાત્મા ગાંધીજીની આત્મકથા' રામચરિતમાનસની જેમ ગાંધી માનસ' છે. એના અધ્યયન પછી હું એ કહીશ કે, બધા યુવાઓ તેમજ યુવતિઓ તથા બધી ઉંમરના લોકોએ એને અવશ્ય વાંચવા જોઈએ. સરકારે એને વિદ્યાલયોમાં પાઠ્યક્રમમાં સ્વીકૃત કરવું જોઈએ, જેથી બધા વિદ્યાર્થી એનું અધ્યયન કરીને જીવનમાં લાભ ઉઠાવી શકે.

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An earlier version of this column misspelled the name of Mollie Hemingway. This version has been corrected.

Christine Blasey Ford is promoting her new memoir to acclaim from certain quarters, including a glowing review by the New York Times. Meanwhile, the man she accused of being a witness to her alleged sexual assault by now-Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh more than 40 years ago can’t get his own book reviewed or even mentioned by mainstream newspapers.

You know me. I can’t resist flipping over a cow patty to see what’s underneath.

Ford, you’ll recall, is the California psychologist with two front doors in her house who, in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2018, accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a high-school-era party while another boy, Mark Judge, allegedly stood by. Judge, who kept his distance and silence during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings — in part, he has said , to avoid further harassment by Democratic interlocutors — released his own version of those events and the aftermath in “ The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi ” (2022).

As with Kavanaugh, Ford’s accusation against Judge was embraced by most of the news media despite an absence of evidence or corroborating testimony. No one who was supposed to have been at the party where Ford was allegedly assaulted remembered it, or her. Ford herself was unable to nail down the year the party took place (but settled on 1982 after several stabs) or where it was held, how she got there, how she got home or any other details, except that she herself had consumed just one beer, according to her testimony. Her claims against Kavanaugh ultimately were unsubstantiated.

Even so, the awards and accolades for Ford keep coming. During a recent appearance on “The View,” she was nearly sanctified for her “bravery.” Not one of the “View” chin-wags seemed to have done any research. They merely checked the box next to “female” and continued to hold in contempt the male who became a Supreme Court justice. Whoopi Goldberg summed it up: “To face those people the way they were looking and dealing with you, that is bravery under a whole different kind of fire.”

A fair-minded person would also wonder what it was like to be in Kavanaugh’s seat.

And what about Judge? “Roadkill” is the way constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley described Judge’s invisible role in this tale. Of course, Judge and Kavanaugh were and are distinct people whose adult lives could not be more different. Kavanaugh was the kind of boy who kept a detailed calendar of his busy activities and who had a stellar career as a federal judge.

Judge, who chronicled his heavy-drinking school days in his 1997 book, “ Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk ,” was a teenage alcoholic who had to claw his way to sobriety and suffered accordingly. He told Martha MacCallum during a recent Fox News interview that the effects of being essentially locked in a stockade for public ridicule and condemnation included “suicidal ideation” and “economic issues.”

Under interrogation by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kavanaugh was forced to review his youthful beer consumption, which he admitted was gustatory. He wasn’t alone; Ford was a drinker, too, according to friends and outlined in the deeply researched book “ Justice on Trial ” by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino.

In my own research for a book that never came to fruition, I also learned that Ford was a party girl, which means she and I would have been friends. Her real “best friend” at the time, Leland Keyser, was known as her designated driver in those days, according to several of her friends cited in yet another book, “ The Education of Brett Kavanaugh ” by New York Times writers Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly.

A straight-A student and athlete who became a professional golfer, Keyser had her driver’s license at the time of the alleged assault.

Keyser, who felt pressured by Ford’s supporters to confirm Ford’s story, testified to the FBI that she had no recollection of any such party and didn’t know Kavanaugh.

When intimidation didn’t work, Ford and her friends implied that Keyser’s testimony couldn’t be trusted because she had “significant health challenges,” as Ford put it during her testimony. It didn’t take long for the meaning here to become public. Keyser had at one point become addicted to painkillers prescribed for golf-related back and neck injuries. She has suffered years of surgeries and pain that continues today, thanks to her commitment to recovery. No meds. She also has had to cope with the psychological effects of her persecution by the anti-Kavanaugh brigade. At least one person from Team Ford tried to persuade her to adjust her story. She refused.

Meanwhile, after five years of silence, Judge has emerged from his bunker with both barrels blazing. One can stand only so much smearing. He was, after all, accused in the public arena of variously urging Kavanaugh on or trying to stop him, all the while laughing, according to Ford. Like Kavanaugh, Judge was presumed guilty — a tragic by-product of the “believe the woman” orthodoxy that emerged during the #MeToo movement — and justly wants to have his say.

It takes guts to try to breach the #MeToo iron curtain, as Judge is attempting to do. It takes no courage at all to enrich yourself at other people’s expense, as Ford has done. Even if she believes her own story or suffered some traumatic event at some time, in the absence of evidence or corroboration, a measure of doubt is called for. This doesn’t necessarily mean she lied, as Hemingway and Severino have noted.

Both Judge and Keyser, it seems, deserve the applause Ford is receiving for perpetuating a questionable history that has damaged so many people, not to mention the judicial system she says she has sought to protect. We know the truth is otherwise, thanks to a video capture of Ford’s lawyer, Debra Katz, saying that her client wanted to block Kavanaugh because of fears he would vote to reverse Roe v. Wade . Ford’s fears might have been justified, but her tactics — which have netted her $1 million in donations plus overnights at Oprah’s — were not.

Nothing good grows under a cow patty, but Ford sure did step in one.

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10 books to add to your reading list in April

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Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your April reading list.

April’s book releases cover some difficult topics, including Salman Rushdie discussing his 2022 maiming, Leigh Bardugo’s fiction about the dark arts and Ada Limón’s poetry anthology about our fragile world. However, like April, there is also sunshine: Leif Enger’s wild Great Lakes love story, Helen Tworkov’s beautiful memoir of Buddhism and a collection of the inimitable Maggie Nelson’s essays. Happy reading, happy spring!

I Cheerfully Refuse: A Novel By Leif Enger Grove Press: 336 pages, $28 (April 2)

An unusual and meaningful surprise awaits readers of Enger’s latest, which takes place largely on Lake Superior, as a man named Rainy tries to reunite with his beloved wife, Lark. While the world around this couple, a dystopian near-future American where billionaires control everything, could not be bleaker, the author’s retelling of the myth of Orpheus (who went to the underworld to rescue his wife) contains the authentic hope of a born optimist.

The Familiar: A Novel By Leigh Bardugo Flatiron Books: 400 pages, $30 (April 9)

Bardugo departs from novels of dark academia in a standalone to make the hairs on your neck stand up, set in 16th century Spain. A hidden Sephardic Jew and scullery maid named Luzia Cotado matches wits with fellow servant Guillén Santángel. Luzia discovers a secret of Guillén’s, but she’s already fallen in love with him. And because he knows hers, too, they might both avoid the Spanish Inquisition. It’s a gorgeous tale of enchantments both supernatural and earthly.

The Sleepwalkers: A Novel By Scarlett Thomas Simon & Schuster: 304 pages, $28 (April 9)

A couple honeymoons at a Greek resort. What could go wrong? In Thomas’ hands, plenty – especially as the author has never written a comfortable story; her books, from “PopCo ” to “Oligarchy,” crackle with unreliable characters, as well as big philosophical ideas. In this case, the new marriage’s breakdown is chronicled through letters between the spouses, and sometimes bits of ephemera, that ultimately untangle a dark mystery relating to the title.

The Garden: A Novel By Clare Beams Doubleday: 304 pages, $28 (April 10)

Few novels of literary fiction are written as well as “The Garden,” let alone given its sadly relevant retro setting, a 1940s country-estate obstetrical program. Irene Willard walks through its gates having endured five miscarriages; pregnant again, she and her war-veteran husband George desperately hope for a live birth. But as Irene discovers more about the woman who controls all here, Dr. Bishop, she fears carrying to term as much as she once feared pregnancy loss.

Reboot: A Novel By Justin Taylor Pantheon: 304 pages, $28 (April 23)

David Crader, former teen TV heartthrob, just wants to reboot his career when his old show “Rev Beach” has a moment. His life has devolved through substance abuse, divorce and underemployment. But when he and colleagues launch a remake, devolution continues: The protagonist’s struggles are mirrored by climate-change issues, from flooding to wildfires. Despite that darkness, Taylor’s gift for satire might make this a must-read for 2024 beach bags.

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World By Ada Limón (Editor) Milkweed Editions: 176 pages, $25 (April 2)

A wondrous artist herself, Limón is currently poet laureate of the United States, and this anthology is part of her signature project, “You Are Here,” which will also feature poetry as public art in seven national parks. Released in conjunction with the Library of Congress, the collection features 50 previously unpublished poems by luminaries including Jericho Brown, Joy Harjo, Carl Phillips and Diane Seuss, each focusing on a piece of regional landscape.

Like Love: Essays and Conversations By Maggie Nelson Graywolf Press: 336 pages, $32 (April 2)

While all of the pieces in Nelson’s new book have previously been published elsewhere, they’re made fresh here both through being collected and through their chronological placement. Readers can practically watch Nelson’s incisive mind growing and changing as she speaks with colleagues such as Hilton Als and Judith Butler, or as she writes about queerness, motherhood, violence, the lyrics of Prince and the devastating loss of a friend.

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder By Salman Rushdie Random House: 204 pages, $28 (April 16)

On Aug. 12, 2022, the author Salman Rushdie was speaking at upstate New York’s Chautauqua festival when a man rushed the stage and attempted to murder him. Rushdie, a target of Iranian religious leaders since 1989, was permanently injured. In this book, he shares his experience for the first time, having said that this was essential for him to write. In this way, he answers violence with art, once again reminding us all that freedom of expression must be protected.

Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America By Helen Tworkov St. Martin’s Essentials: 336 pages, $29 (April 16)

Dworkov, founder of the magazine Tricycle, chronicles her move from a 1960s young-adult interest in Buddhism to travels through Asia and deep study in the United States of the different strands that follow the Buddha’s teachings. Tworkov mentions luminaries such as the artist Richard Serra, the composer Charles Mingus and the Dalai Lama, but she’s not name dropping. Instead, she’s strewing fragrant petals from her singular path to mindfulness that may help us find ours.

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War By Erik Larson Crown: 592 pages, $35 (April 30)

Even diehard Civil War aficionados will learn from Larson’s look at the six months between Lincoln’s 1860 election and the surrender of Union troops under Maj. Robert Anderson at Charleston’s Ft. Sumter. Larson details Anderson’s secret Christmas redeployment and explores this individual’s contradictions as a former slave owner who loyally follows Lincoln’s orders. The author also shares first-person perspective from the famous diaries of the upper-class Southerner Mary Chesnut. All together, the book provides a riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult.

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The craft anthology “How We Do It,” edited by the great Jericho Brown, and Shayla Lawson’s astounding “How to Live Free in a Dangerous World.”

Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how).

Probably on the smoking patio of a wine bar at happy hour on a sunny day, with a pencil in my hand and Dorothy Ashby or Ambrose Akinmusire playing through noise-canceling headphones. Or just a quiet morning on my couch with coffee, so engrossed I forget to flip the record.

What’s the last book you read that made you laugh?

“Erasure,” by Percival Everett . I picked up a used copy at Shakespeare & Company recently — after seeing Cord Jefferson’s brilliant adaptation , “American Fiction” — and even on a reread, it made me laugh out loud from the first page.

The last book that made you cry?

Weird or obnoxious if I say my own? Before that, it was probably Y.A.

Do you count any books as guilty pleasures?

That category’s filled to the brim and beyond by reality TV.

How do you organize your books?

Loosely or not at all. This is much to the horror of my Virgo pals, and while I used to take pride in navigating my shelves on familiarity alone, it’s something I’ve vowed to work on. Still, I doubt I’ll ever be an alphabetical type, and clearly I find genre segregation constricting. I do group things thematically, or even interpersonally — music biographies, Black Panthers, Harlem Renaissance; Jessica Hopper is next to John Giorno, and Chase Berggrun’s “R E D” is next to “Dracula”; Julie Buntin’s “Marlena” is beside her husband Gabe Habash’s “Stephen Florida”; Alison C. Rollins is next to her partner Nate Marshall is next to his bestie José Olivarez. At some point Hilton Als’s “White Girls” ended up next to “Male Fantasies,” and I don’t think I’ll ever separate them.

Which genres do you avoid?

There’s an essay in “You Get What You Pay For” where I mention reading a self-help book (as recommended by my now-former psychiatrist). I’d never read one before and have not since.

How does your poetry relate to your essay writing?

The truth is that poetry is under everything. It’s the lyric and sensory backbone. It’s what drives the sound, pace and imagery. (Everyone knows the best prose writers write and read poetry.) But while a poem strives for precision of language, the essay strives for precision of thought, even argument. In a poem, you can build (or approximate) an argument by plopping two images next to each other. It persuades by pointing. Writing these essays felt like pulling apart a long piece of taffy — I found myself reiterating a lot of what I’ve already expressed in poems, so it almost became a project of stretching out each poetic line, breaking down each concept to its root. The process is about asking, pondering, searching — and letting language take part in the answering.

You have a knack for terrific book titles. How did you name your new collection?

Thank you! I love a good title, but I also acknowledge the high bar I have set for myself. With this one, I struggled a bit, I think because it took me a while to understand the book myself, let alone how to introduce it to the world. The essays encompass a lot of seemingly disparate themes and even tonal registers, so framing the overall collection was daunting. I’d been tossing around a couple of options, including “Cheaper Than Therapy,” which appears as an essay title, when Jay-Z made the choice for me. I was in Italy at a residency, grieving the recent loss of my aunt and watching the “Big Pimpin’” video over and over as I worked on an essay about it for the book. I’d left my heavily tabbed copy of “Decoded” at home in Los Angeles, but was scrolling a PDF for details about the video shoot when I came across the line: “If the price is life, then you better get what you paid for.”

You describe yourself as foolish for believing “words could be the pathway to empathy and writing an active resistance against hate.” Might publishing this book change your mind?

Honestly? It’s my only hope.

What’s the last book you recommended to a member of your family?

“Heavy,” by Kiese Laymon, to my mom; Blair LM Kelley’s “ Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class,” to my dad; and “A Is for Activist,” to my 8-month-old cousin.

What do you plan to read next?

Phillip B. Williams’s “Ours” was just published, and I’ve been excited about it for literally years. Vinson Cunningham’s “Great Expectations” came out the same day as my book, so I plan to make that my tour read.

You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?

June Jordan, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin — but I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t get just as much fun and fulfillment from a night with Angel Nafis, Danez Smith and Saeed Jones.

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