— POEMS by Jayant Parmar
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Jayant Parmar, born on 11 October 1954, a well-known Indian Urdu language poet, artist and calligrapher, writes both in Urdu and Gujarati. He is known for raising Dalit issues in his poetry. Parmar was born in a poor family. Since he had developed an appreciation and taste for Urdu poetry while living in the walled city area of Ahmadabad, he taught himself Urdu from a language learning guide at the age 30 after.
Parmar has published seven collections of Urdu poems: “𝘈𝘶𝘳” (1999), “𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘈𝘶𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘳𝘪 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯” (2006), “𝘔𝘢𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘥” (2007), “𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘭” (2010), “𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘮 𝘠𝘢𝘢𝘯𝘪” (2013), “𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪 𝘒𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘱𝘯𝘦”, (2016) and “𝘕𝘶𝘲𝘵𝘢 𝘈𝘶𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘳𝘪 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯” (2019). He is recipient of Sahitya Academi Award, 2009 for his book “𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘈𝘶𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘳𝘪 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘮𝘦𝘪𝘯”, Bhasha Bharti Samman, 2006 for “𝘈𝘶𝘳”, Gujarat Sahitya Academi Award, Bhartiya Dalit Sahitya Academi (2002) and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jeevan Gaurav Puraskaar (2020) etc. His works has been translated into Hindi, English, Punjabi, Assami, Telugu, Bangla, Kashmiri, Tamil, Kannada, Malyalam, Nepali, Marathi and also in various other languages like Slovenian and Spanish
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Baidar Bakht, born in 1940, took his first degree in civil engineering from Aligarh, and M.Sc. and D.Sc from London University. He is a bridge engineer by profession, but now retired from full-time employment. He is Adjunct Professor of civil engineering at the universities of Toronto and Manitoba. He is renowned for his translations of modern Urdu poetry into English. Since 1974, Baidar Bakht has been living in Toronto, Canada, with his family.
The flask of the poem broke,
But surprisingly, the sound of its breaking
On the shiny floor
Does not pierce my heart
Like an arrow!