Ardeshar Khabardar

Ardeshar Faramji Khabardar
Born 6 November 1881
Daman, Portuguese India
Died 30 July 1953 (aged 71)
Madras, India
Occupation poet
Language Gujarati

Ardeshar Faramji Khabardar, also spelled Ardeshir Pharamji Khabardar, was a Gujarati language poet from India. He wrote under pen name, Adal. Living in Bombay and Madras, he wrote in different styles of poetry and published around forty books. He wrote sonnets about Zoroastrianism also.

Life

Ardeshar was born in Parsi family in Daman on 6 November 1881. He had primary education in Daman and secondary education from New Bharda Highschool, Bombay. He started motorcycle accessories business in Madras in 1909. He presided Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1941. He died in Madras on 30 July 1953.[1][2]

Works

He wrote under several pen names chiefly under Adal. He wrote around forty books in Gujarati and two in English.[1][3]

His Gujarati poem, Jya Jya Vase Ek Gujarati, Tya Tya Sadakal Gujarat (Wherever a Gujarati resides, there forever is Gujarat) depicts Gujarati ethnic pride and is widely popular in Gujarat.[4]

He wrote in modern Gujarati instead of Parsi Gujarati. His first work was poetry collection Kavyarasika which followed style of Dalpatram in 1901. Vilasika published in 1905 followed style of Narsinhrao Divetia. Prakashika (1908) is styled as works of Kalapi and Kant. Bharat no Tankar (1909) and Rashtrika (1940) are collections of patriotic songs. He parodied and satirised Gujarat no Tapasvi and Brahmadiksha of Nanalal as Prabhat no Tapasvi and Kutkutdiksha (1920) under pen name Motalal. Sandeshika (1925) includes patriotic songs. His Kalika (1926) is a love song in blank verse style. Bhajanika (1928), Darshanika (1931) and Kalyanika (1940) are collection of devotional songs. Rasachandrika (1929, 1941) is a collection of rasa songs in style of Nanalal and Botadkar. Shriji Iranshah no Pawado which depicts histrory of Zorostrianism and Gandhi Bapu no Pawado which praises Mahatma Gandhi, both are poetry in marathi powada style. Gandhi Bapu (1948) also has thirty one songs dedicated to Gandhi. His last collection, Kirtanika had seventy five kirtan songs. He also published Malabari na Kavyaratno, an interpretation of poems of Behramji Malabari in 1913.[1][2][5][6][7][8]

His only English language poetry collection The Silken Tassel (1918) had fifty nine poems. He wrote New light on the Gathas of holy Zarathushtra and Zarathushtra:101 sonnets depicting life and teaching of Zoroaster.[1][9][10]

He started writing play titled Manuraj or Vishwanatika styled on Goethe's Faust and Nanalal's free verse in 1936 but never completed or published.[1]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Ardeshar Khabardar". Gujarati Sahitya Parishad (in Gujarati). Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jeṭhālāla Nārāyaṇa Trivedī (1987). Love Poems & Lyrics from Gujarati. Gurjar Grantha Ratna Karyalaya. p. 181.
  3. ↑ Aradeśara Pharāmajī Khabaradāra; Dharmendra M. Master (1990). The Migrating bird. Ajit Prakashan on behalf of A.F. Khabardar Birth-Centenary Publications.
  4. ↑ Raymond Brady Williams (1984). A New Face of Hinduism: The Swaminarayan Religion. CUP Archive. pp. 170–. ISBN 978-0-521-27473-9. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Sivasankari (1998). Knit India through literature. Eastwest Books. p. 296.
  6. ↑ Peter Brock (1995). Mahatma Gandhi as a Linguistic Nationalist. South Asia Publications. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-0-945921-30-1.
  7. ↑ Sisir Kumar Das (1995). A history of Indian literature, 1911–1956: struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 978-81-7901-798-2.
  8. ↑ Shastri, P. N.; P. Lal (1974). The Writers Workshop Handbook of Gujarati Literature: A-F. Writers Workshop. p. 37.
  9. ↑ Sheshalatha Reddy (2012). Mapping the Nation: An Anthology of Indian Poetry in English, 1870–1920. Anthem Press. pp. 263–. ISBN 978-0-85728-441-9.
  10. ↑ Nalini Natarajan; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (1 January 1996). Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7.