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About Jayant Parmer
- Jayant Parmar (Urdu: ???? ??????, born 11 October 1954) is an Indian Urdu language poet known for raising Dalit issues in his poetry. Parmar was born in a poor family.
- At a young age, he began to paint miniature paintings for a frame maker.
- Parmar realized that the frame maker had a separate pot for him because he was Dalit.
- This saddened Parmar and he quit.Parmar taught himself Urdu from a language learning guide at age 30 after he developed an appreciation for Urdu poetry while living in a Muslim-dominated area in the walled city area of Ahmedabad. He has published three poetry collections: Aur in 1998, Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein in 2006, and Manind in 2008.
- Parmar won the 2008 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein.
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