Nationality Indian Name Saroop Dhruv | Role Writer | |
Born 1948 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Occupation Educator
Writer
Activist | ||
Saroop Dhruv | The Culture Talk - Episode 10 : Part 1
Saroop Dhruv (born 1948) is an Indian educator, writer and activist.
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She was born in Ahmedabad and was educated at St. Xavier's High School, Gujarat University and Gujarat Vidyapith. She was a Gujarati language teacher at St. Xavier's Education Center. In 1982, she published her first collection of poems Mera Hathni Vat (What is within my heart), which received an award from the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. In 1995, she published a second collection of poems Salagti Havao (Burning flames). In 1996, she received the Mahendra Bhagat Award.
Dhruv was a founding member of the cultural group Samvedan Sanskritic Manch and of the media group Darshan; both groups have social change as an objective. She is also a founder of Kalam, which provides an outlet for women writers. She also writes and directs plays.
English translations of her poems have appeared in the collections In their Own Voice (1990), Women Writing in India (1995) and Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection (1998).