Jayant Parmar (born 11 October 1954) is an Indian Urdu language poet known for raising

Dalit Dalit ( from meaning "broken/scattered") is a term used for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. They are also called Harijans. Dalits were excluded from the fourfold var ...

issues in his poetry. Parmar was born in a poor family. At a young age, he began to paint miniature paintings for a frame maker. Parmar realized that the frame maker had a separate pot for him because he was Dalit. This saddened Parmar and he quit. Parmar taught himself Urdu from a language learning guide at age 30 after he developed an appreciation for

Urdu poetry Urdu poetry ( ) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan. According to Naseer Turabi, there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d. 1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. ...

while living in a Muslim-dominated area in the walled city area of

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ), also spelled 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 ...

. He has published a number of poetry collections: ''Aur'' in 1998, ''Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein'' in 2006, ''Manind'' in 2008, ''Antaral'' in 2010 and ''Giacometti ke sapne'' in 2016. Parmar won the 2008 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for ''Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein''. His work has been translated into Kashmiri, Punjabi, Hindi, Marathi, Bangla, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and Slovenian.

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