Niranjan Bhagat

Niranjan Bhagat (18 April 1926 – 1 February 2018) was an Indian poet and commentator. He was born in Ahmedabad, India. Bhagat won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his work Gujarati Sahiyta-Purvardha Uttarardha. He was also an English poet, and had written over a hundred poems in English, most being written in the style of Gitanjali.

Bhagat died of a stroke on 1 February 2018 in Ahmedabad at the age of 91.

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