Harji Lavji Damani Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Harji Lavji Damani Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Harji Lavji Damani, better known by his pen name Shayda, was a

Gujarati language poet, novelist, short-story writer and playwright

from Gujarat, India. He is known as Ghazal Samrat,[1] the king of

ghazal poetry, as he established the Gujarati ghazal form in Gujarati

literature.Damani was born on 24 October 1892[2] in Pipli, a village

near Dhandhuka, Gujarat to Lavjibhai and Santokbahen. His family

belonged to the Khoja Shia Ishna Asheri community. He studied until

the fourth year. In 1912, one of his poems appeared in print for the

first time in Bombay Samachar. Subsequently, he started writing

ghazals (traditional songs), novels, short stories and plays,

including Kumali Kali, which be both wrote and directed. He was the

founding editor of the Gujarati weekly magazine Be Ghadi Moj (first

issue, 17 August 1924[2]) which established Gujarati ghazal as an

independent genre from Urdu ghazal. It was closed its publication in

1953.[2] He also served as a subeditor of Ghazal, a Gujarati poetry

magazine. He died on 31 May 1962 in Mumbai.[3][4]Shayda means 'mad

with love' in Urdu.His works on Gujarati poetry and ghazals include

Jay Bharati (1963), Gulzare-Shayri-Shayda (1961), Dipak Na Phool

(1965), Chita (1968) and Ashru Chalya Jaay Che (1999). Jay Bharati is

a long narrative poem, composed in Dalpatram-style.[5]
Harji Lavji Damani Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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