Nagindas Parekh

Nagindas Narandas Parekh (8 August 1903 – 19 January 1993) was Gujarati language critic, editor and translator from India. He is also known by his pen name, Granthkeet (literally bookworm).

Nagindas Parekh was born on August 8, 1903 in the city of Bulsar (now Valsad) in south Gujarat state in India. He completed his primary and secondary education in Valsad and graduated from Gujarat Vidyapith in 1921. From 1921 to 1925, he attended Gujarat College run by the Gujarat Vidyapith where he obtained a degree in Gujarati under Ramnarayan V Pathak and in Bengali under Indrabhushan Majmudar. Later he joined Viswa-Bharati at Santiniketan in 1925–26 for higher studies in Bengali. He studied Bengali and literature of Rabindranath Tagore under Kshitimohan Sen. He taught briefly at Gujarat Vidyapith in 1926. He worked with Navajivan Trust from 1944 to 1947. Later he taught at B J Vidyabhavan run by Gujarat Vidyasabha. He worked as a professor from 1955 to 1969 in H K Arts College, Ahmedabad. He died on 19 January 1993.

He contributed chiefly in field of criticism, editing and translations.

Abhinavno Rasvichar ane Bija Lekho (1969) is a collection of essays. His critical work Viksha ane Niriksha (1981) include criticism of eastern as well as western poetry, objective correlative and Croce's philosophy. His other critical works are Parichay ane Pariksha (1968), Swadhyay ane Samiksha (1969), Crocenu Esthetic ane Bija Lekho (Croce's Esthetic, 1972).

He wrote biography of Navalram (1961), Mahadev Desai (1962), Premanand (1963), Gandhiji (1964). Saat Charitro (Seven Biographies, 1947) is a collection of short biographies which include Confucius, Tansen, Dadabhai Naoroji. Sattavan (Fifty Seven, 1938) is a work on Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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