Suresh Dalal

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Suresh Parshottamdas Dalal (October 11, 1932 – August 10, 2012) was a Gujarati poet, essayist, litterateur and editor who won the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his poem Akhand Zalar Vage. Dalal was born in Thane. He did his B.A. in Gujarati in 1953, M.A. in 1955 and Ph.D. in 1969. As an academic, he served as the Head of the Gujarati Department at SNDT Women's University; Vice-chancellor at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda; and a "National Lecturer" for the UGC. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of Gujarati Sahitya Academy from 1983 to 1987. He is also the editor of the Gujarati poetry journal Kavita and literary quarterly Vivecana. He has been awarded with several other awards including the Gujarat Government Award 5 times. Suresh Dalal died on August 10, 2012, in Mumbai, of a heart attack, aged 79. Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, tweeted,"The demise of legendary Gujarati writer Suresh Dalal is very unfortunate. Today, every single word of the Gujarati language is in tears.)

The Best Poem Of Suresh Dalal

Prose Poem

I look at you in helpless silence, incapable of doing
a thing for you. In the middle of the white-washed walls
of the hospital ward you lie, groaning quietly in the dark abyss of pain.
Only a miracle can bring you some relief. I have nothing to offer,
but a prayer. All my prayers reach the Almighty, an attempt I shall make.
I am trying to find ways to shake off His unbearable silence.
Desolation and numbness in your eyes drive me crazy and as
I leave the ward quietly, I hear the footsteps of death. I want to
cut off my ears to block their sound. But will that delay the advent of death?
From your voicelessness before death, I move towards your silence
after death - and I do not even want to feel angry or shed tears
at my helplessness.

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