Jayant Parmer
Jayant Parmer (Urdu: جینت پرمار, born October 11, 1954) is an Indian Urdu language poet known for raising Dalit issues in his poetry.[1]
Parmer was born in a poor family. At a young age, he began to paint miniature paintings for a frame maker. Parmer realized that the frame maker had a separate pot for him because he was Dalit. This saddened Parmer and he quit.[2][3]
Parmer 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.[3] He has published three poetry collections: Aur in 1998, Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein in 2006, and Manind in 2008.[4] Parmer won the 2008 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein.[5] [6]
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