Mukund Parikh
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Mukund Parikh (born 26 January 1934) is a
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novelist, poet and playwright from
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, India.


Life

Mukund Parikh was born on 26 January 1934 in Nadisar village (now in
Panchmahal district Panchmahal, also rendered as Panch Mahal, is a district in the eastern portion of Gujarat State western India. ''Panch-mahal'' means "five tehsils/talukas" (5 sub-divisions), and refers to the five sub-divisions that were transferred by the Mahar ...
, Gujarat) to Bhailal Parikh. He completed his primary and secondary education from his native town Balasinor. He completed his B.A. in economics from Dharmendrasinhji College,
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in 1957. He worked in a Provident Fund Commissioner Office from 1954 to 1980. He studied LL.B. from
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in 1980 from
Gujarat University The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The university is an affiliating university at the under-graduate level and a teaching university at the post graduate level. It is accredited A+ by NAAC ...
. Since 1981, he is working as a lawyer.


Works

His ''Mahabhinishkraman'' (1968) was an experimental novel. The story follows a
love triangle A love triangle is a scenario or circumstance, usually depicted as a rivalry, in which two people are pursuing or involved in a romantic relationship with one person, or in which one person in a romantic relationship with someone is simultaneo ...
of a character named Amit Dalal and it explores his relationship with three ladies: Chandan, his mother; Rama, his wife and Saroj, his lover. Parikh employs the
stream of consciousness In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator. It is usually in the form of an interior monologue which ...
in his narration. He has used motifs such as pipal tree and darkness. He has explored
Oedipus complex In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. A daughter's attitude of desire ...
in his character's relationships. The novel was particularly praised for its language. He was associated with the experimental literary circles such as Re Math and Akanth Sabarmati. His
one-act play A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. The 20-40 minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writi ...
''Choras Inda Ane Gol Kabaro'' was included in a collection of five one-act plays ''Make Believe'' (1968) published by Re Math. This play is considered as an example of an absurd play from the early period of modern Gujarati literature. It is a psychological play flipping the places of an actor and the viewers in the theatre. ''Moksh'' (1975) is his one-act plays collection. ''Man Chitarie'' (2004) is his poetry collection awarded by
Gujarat Sahitya Akademi The Gujarat Sahitya Akademi () or Gujarat Sahitya Academy, established in 1981, is a government institution dedicated to the development of the languages spoken in Gujarat, India and their literature. Gujarati, an official language of Gujarat, i ...
. He co-edited poetry journal ''Shabda'' with Ravji Patel.


See also

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List of Gujarati-language writers The following is an alphabetical list of Gujarati writers who has contributed in Gujarati literature; presenting an overview of notable authors, journalists, novelists, playwrights, poets and screenwriters who have released literary works in the Gu ...


References

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