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POETRY

A Poem

β€”POEM by Jayant Parmar

(Translated from GUJARATI by Dr. G.K.Vankar)

You laugh like a butcher,

after beating us with sticks and

kicks.

We were born

in a gunny huts,

grew up in sun,

and were charred one day.

The stone hearted,

cruel ones,

show us doves of peace

in the sky,

and then pierce

our dreaming eyes

with sharp needles.

The fairy from heaven

arrives in our

courtyard

with the poison of moonlight.

For so many years,

we were told tales

in the shadow of moon.

On that night we had the first dream,

thereafter there was no dawn.

The tree of dreams is still burning in our eyes.

Every night

a screaming bird crying against the atrocities is throttled,

and you engage in festivities

in protected palaces.

But beware!

the roof of your palace

is about to collapse.

….

(Translated from GUJARATI by Dr. G.K.Vankar)

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POETRY

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Jayant Parmar Urdu and Gujrati Poet

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.Β 

Parmar has published seven collections of Urdu poems: β€œAur” (1999), β€œPencil Aur Doosri Nazmein” (2006), β€œMaanind” (2007), β€œAntraal” (2010), β€œNazm Yaani” (2013), β€œGiacometti Ke Sapne”, (2016) and β€œNuqta Aur Doosri Nazmein” (2019). He is recipient of Sahitya Academi Award, 2009 for his book β€œPencil Aur Doosri Nazmein”, Bhasha Bharti Samman, 2006 for β€œAur”, 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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Dr. G. K.Vankar - Gujrati Translator

Dr. G. K.Vankar

Born in 1953, Dr. G. K. Vankar is a Professor of Psychiatry at a Medical College in Gujarat. He is translatorΒ  and blogger. He has translated extensively Gujarati Dalit Literature .He has also translated several poems and short stories from other Indian languages, especially Dalit Literature, in Gujarati. Dr. G. K. Vankar has published translations Jayant Parmar’s Urdu poetry in English titled β€˜β€Inkpot and other poems”, 2011.

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