Saroop Dhruv

Saroop Dhruv
Born 1948
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Educator
Writer
Activist

Saroop Dhruv (born 1948) is an Indian educator, writer and activist.[1]

She was born in Ahmedabad and was educated at St. Xavier's High School, Gujarat University and Gujarat Vidyapith. She was a Gujarati language teacher at St. Xavier's Education Center.[1] In 1982, she published her first collection of poems Mera Hathni Vat (What is within my heart), which received an award from the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. In 1995, she published a second collection of poems Salagti Havao (Burning flames).[2] In 1996, she received the Mahendra Bhagat Award.[3]

Dhruv was a founding member of the cultural group Samvedan Sanskritic Manch and of the media group Darshan; both groups have social change as an objective. She is also a founder of Kalam, which provides an outlet for women writers.[2] She also writes and directs plays.[3]

English translations of her poems have appeared in the collections In their Own Voice (1990), Women Writing in India (1995)[3] and Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection (1998).[1]

Selected works[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection. 1998. p. 79. ISBN 8126002948.
  2. 1 2 3 "Saroop Dhruv". Poetry International Rotterdam.
  3. 1 2 3 Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. p. 84. ISBN 0415159806.
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