Babu Suthar

Babu Suthar (Gujarati: બાબુ સુથાર) is a Gujarati Lecturer in South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, currently the only full-time instructor in this language in North America at the university level.

As a linguist, he is primarily interested in South Asian Linguistics and Typological Linguistics and has completed doctoral work on Agreement in Gujarati at the MS University of Baroda, under Dr. Bharati Modi. He had stint as journalist with the Gujarati newspaper Sandesh prior to taking up full-time academic pursuits.

He has written on linguistic philosophy as well as on literary theories in Gujarati, including a recently published co-authored piece on Gujarati language in Indo-Aryan Languages (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). With his roots in Panchamahals district of Gujarat he has done several studies on the post-modern nuances of Gujarati idiom at his home territory.

He has also prepared extensive language materials: three textbooks, one learner's dictionary as well as several other materials for teaching Gujarati, including Gujarati thematic vocabulary, pedagogic grammar and Parts of Speech. Suthar is also an accomplished creative writer, and has published four experimental novels called Kachando ane Darpan, Srmad Kagadapacchisi, Vakyakatha and Valgad, and the fifth, Nidraviyoga, is in press.

He has a published poem collection Gurujaapa, while a second Sapphera is in press. His short stories Dhuliyo and Lulo have been translated in English. He has also written a long fairy tale for children, Ek hato chokaro, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture in India.^[1]

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↑ "SASLI Faculty". sasli.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2015-09-27.

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Gujarati writers
A–D	Aabid Surti Abdulgani Dahiwala Adil Mansuri Akho Alexander Kinloch Forbes Amrit Keshav Nayak Amritlal Vegad Amrut Ghayal Amrutlal Yagnik Anandghan Anandshankar Dhruv Anantrai Raval Anil Chavda Anil Joshi Anila Dalal Aniruddh Brahmabhatt Ankit Trivedi Anwarmiya Kaji Ardeshar Khabardar Asharam Dalichand Shah Ashok Chavda Ashok Dave Ashokpuri Goswami Ashwini Bhatt Asim Randeri Babu Suthar Bachubhai Ravat Bakul Tripathi Balashankar Kantharia Balmukund Dave Balwantray Thakore Barkat Virani Behramji Malabari Bhagvat Singh Bhagwandas Patel Bhagwatikumar Sharma Bhalan Bhanuprasad Trivedi Bhavesh Bhatt Bhavsinhji II Bhoja Bhagat Bholabhai Patel Bholanath Divetia Bhupat Vadodaria Bindu Bhatt Buddhisagarsuri Chandrakant Bakshi Chandrakant Shah Chandrakant Sheth Chandrakant Topiwala Chandrashekhar Vijay Chandravadan Mehta Chintan Shelat Chinu Modi Chunilal Madia Curumsey Damjee Dalpatram Damodar Botadkar Dayaram Dhirendra Mehta Dhiru Parikh Dhirubhai Thaker Dhiruben Patel Dhumketu Dhwanil Parekh Digish Mehta Dileep Jhaveri Dinkar Joshi
E–L	Esha Dadawala Esther David Eva Dave Father Vallés Gangasati Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh Gijubhai Badheka Girdhar Govardhanram Tripathi Gulabdas Broker Gulfam Gunvant Shah Gunvantrai Acharya H. N. Golibar Hajimahamad Allarakha Hansa Jivraj Mehta Hardwar Goswami Harilal Dhruv Harilal Upadhyay Harindra Dave Hariprasad Vyas Harish Meenashru Harivallabh Bhayani Harji Lavji Damani 'Shayda' Harkisan Mehta Harsh Brahmbhatt Harshad Trivedi Hemant Chauhan Hemchandracharya Himanshi Shelat Ichharam Desai Ila Arab Mehta Indulal Yagnik Ishwar Petlikar J. V. S. Taylor Jaishankar 'Sundari' Jay Vasavada Jayant Khatri Jayant Kothari Jayanti Dalal Jhaverchand Meghani Jhinabhai Desai 'Snehrashmi' Jigar Joshi 'Prem' Jinaharsha Jinvijay Jitesh Donga Jivram Joshi Joseph Macwan Jugatram Dave Jyotindra Dave Kaajal Oza Vaidya Kaka Kalelkar Kalapi Kamal Vora Kamlashankar Trivedi Kanhaiyalal Munshi Kanti Bhatt Karsandas Mulji Kaushik Chaudhary Kavi Kant Keshavlal Dhruv Kiransinh Chauhan Kishansinh Chavda Krishnalal Shridharani Kumarpal Desai Kundanika Kapadia Kundanlal Dholakia Labhshankar Thakar Lalji Kanpariya
M–Z	Madhav Ramanuj Madhu Rye Madhusudan Dhanki Mahadev Desai Mahatma Gandhi Mahipatram Rupram Makanji Kuber Makwana Makarand Dave Manhar Modi Manilal Desai Manilal Nabhubhai Manoj Khanderia Manubhai Pancholi 'Darshak' Mareez Milind Gadhavi Mirabai Mohammad Mankad Mohan Parmar Mulshankar Bhatt Nagindas Parekh Nakar Nandshankar Mehta Narayan Hemchandra Narendra Modi Narhari Parikh Narmad Narsinh Mehta Narsinhrao Divetia Navalram Nayan Desai Nazir Dekhaiya Nazir Mansuri Neerav Patel Nhanalal Niranjan Bhagat Pannalal Patel Phoolchand Gupta Pravin Darji Pravin Pandya Premanand Bhatt Priti Sengupta Raam Mori Radheshyam Sharma Raeesh Maniar Raghuveer Chaudhari Rajendra Patel Rajendra Shah Rajendra Shukla Rajesh Vankar Rajesh Vyas Rakesh Jhaveri Ramanbhai Nilkanth Ramanlal Joshi Ramanlal Soni Ramesh Parekh Ranchhodbhai Dave Ranchhodji Diwan Ranjitram Mehta Rashid Meer Ratnamanirao Jote Ravji Patel Rita Kothari Ruswa Majhalumi Sanjay Chhel Sanju Vala Saroj Pathak Saumya Joshi Shahabuddin Rathod Shamal Bhatt Shayda Shivkumar Joshi Shridhar Vyas Shrikant Shah Shrimad Rajchandra Sitanshu Yashaschandra Sukhlal Sanghvi Suman Shah Suresh Dalal Suresh Joshi Swami Anand Tarini Desai Taarak Mehta Theodore Hope Tribhvandas Luhar 'Sundaram' Udayan Thakker Udayaratna Umashankar Joshi Ushnas Vadilal Dagli Vallabh Bhatt Vallabhsuri Varsha Adalja Vasubahen Venibhai Purohit Vihang A. Naik Vijaygupta Maurya Vijayray Vaidya Vinesh Antani Vinod Bhatt Vinod Joshi Vinu Bamania Vishnu Pandya Vivek Kane 'Sahaj' Vrajlal Shastri Yogesh Joshi Yoseph Macwan Zar Randeri
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