''Ashwattha'' (
Gujarati
Gujarati may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India
* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
* Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub- ...
: અશ્વત્થ) is a collection of poems written by
Natwarlal Kuberdas Pandya, also known as Ushnas, in
Gujarati
Gujarati may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India
* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
* Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub- ...
. The book won the
Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati
Sahitya Akademi Award to Gujarati Writers by Sahitya Akademi. No Awards were conferred in 1957, 1959, 1966 and 1972. In 1969, Swami Anand, in 1983, Suresh Joshi, and in 2009 Shirish Panchal refused this award.
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in 1976. It is considered Ushnas's finest work in Gujarati.
History
Ushnas wrote the poems between 1966 and 1973. They were published in various Gujarati literary magazines including ''Kumar'' and ''Samarpan''. The book was first published in 1975 by Vora & Company, in
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...
.
Content
The book consists of 128 poems composed in different forms, including
sonnet
A sonnet is a poetic form that originated in the poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Sicilian city of Palermo. The 13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnet's invention, ...
s,
geet Geet may refer to:
Media
* geet (song), a traditional Hindi or Urdu song
* ''Geet'' (1944 film)
* ''Geet'' (1970 film), a Bollywood film directed by Ramanand Sagar
* ''Geet'' (1992 film), a Bollywood film directed by Parto Ghosh
* ''Geet'' (TV ...
s,
free verse
Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French ''vers libre'' form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.
Definit ...
,
haiku
is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or se ...
,
ghazal
The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a ...
s and
muktak.
Awards
The book won the
Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
(1976) for Gujarati language.
References
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1975 poetry books
Gujarati-language books
Gujarati-language poetry collections
Indian poetry collections
20th-century Indian books
Sahitya Akademi Award-winning works
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