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Jagdish Joshi

DOB : 09-10-1932
Date of death: 21-09-1978
Lived For : 45 Years
Star Sign : Libra
Gender : Male

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Jagdish Ramakrishna Joshi was a Gujrati poet and translator from India . He was born on 9 October 1932 in Bombay to Annapurna and Ramakrishna Joshi . Jagdish Joshi matriculated in 1949 and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Gujrati and Sanskrit in 1953 from St Xavier’s College , Mumbai . He completed an M.D in Pedagogy in 1955 from Stanford University. He also served as a principal of Bazar Gate High School , Mumbai from 1957 to 1960. Aakash was his first collection of poems , and was published in 1972 , followed by Vamal Na Van ( 1976 ) and Monta Collage ( 1979 ; posthumous ) .

Vamal Na Van was the one to set a new trend in experimental Gujrati poems. Jagdish Joshi was awarded the Uma-Snehrashmi Prize ( 1976-1977 ) and Sahitya Akademi Award ( 1979 ) for his book Vamal Na Van . He also received the Mahakavi Nhanalal Prize in 1977 for the same book. Coming to his personal life, Joshi married Anila Devshankar Badheka in 1953 . Their first daughter , Sandhya was born in 1954 and their second daughter , Aparna was born in 1960 . Their son , Abhijit was born in 1968. Sadly , India lost its gem at a very young age of 45 in the year 1978 , Mumbai due to a cerebral hemorrhage