Tridip Suhrud

Tridip Suhrud (born 19 December 1965) is an Indian writer, political scientist, cultural historian and translator from Gujarat, India.[1]

Tridip Suhrud
Suhrud in 2016
Born (1965-12-19) 19 December 1965
Anand, Gujarat
Occupationwriter, political scientist, cultural historian and translator
LanguageGujarati, English
ResidenceAhmedabad
NationalityIndian
EducationM.A, Ph.D
Academic background
ThesisNarrations of a Nation: Explorations Through Intellectual Biographies (1999)
Doctoral advisorAshis Nandy

Life

Suhrud was born in 1965 in Anand, Gujarat. He completed a Master of Arts in Economics and Political Science and earned a Ph.D under Ashis Nandy for his thesis Narrations of a Nation: Explorations Through Intellectual Biographies, a socio-historical work on 19th century Gujarati literature in the context of autobiographies written by Narmad, Manilal Dwivedi and Govardhanram Tripathi.[2][3]

He served as a coordinator at the Behavioural Science Centre, St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad (1989–1992); as a visiting fellow at the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, CSDS, Delhi (1993–1994); as a faculty member at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (1994–2001); and as a professor at DAIICT, Gandhinagar (2001–2012).[2] After working for five years with Sabarmati Ashram as a director, he resigned in August 2017.[4]

In 2017, he was appointed as professor and director of CEPT Archives.[5]And in 2019 he was appointed as the provost for CEPT University. He is a member of the Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission of the Government of India.[6]

Works

He translated several works from English into Gujarati, including Ashis Nandy's The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism as Antarang Ari, G. N. Devy's After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism as Smrutibhranshna Pagle Pagle and Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal's biography of Harilal Gandhi as Harilal Gandhi: A Life (2007).[1][7]

He translated two major works of Gujarati literature into English; Suresh Joshi's experimental novel Chhinnapatra (as Crumpled letter)[3] and Govardhanram Tripathi's epic novel Saraswatichandra.[8] He also translated the biography of Mahatma Gandhi in four volumes written by Narayan Desai into English from Gujarati.[7]

He translated Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj into Hindi.[1]

Awards

He received the Katha Award in 1999. He received Sahitya Akademi's Translation Prize in 2009 for his translated work, Harilal Gandhi: A Life.[1][9]

Bibliography
  • Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal; Tridip Suhrud (2007). Harilal Gandhi: a life. Orient Longman. ISBN 978-81-250-3049-2.
  • Tridip Suhrud (2009). Writing Life: Three Gujarati Thinkers. Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-81-250-3043-0.
  • Tridip Suhrud (2010). An Autobiography, Or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Table of Concordance. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-57142-5.
  • Mahatma Gandhi (2014). Beloved Bapu: The Gandhi-Mirabehn Correspondence. Orient Blackswan Private Limited. ISBN 978-81-250-5615-7.
  • Kinnari Bhatt; Tridip Suhrud; Malvika Singh (2016). Apostle of the Twentieth Century--M. K. Gandhi: Curated by Kinnari Bhatt and Tridip Suhrud. Academic Foundation. ISBN 978-93-327-0203-5.
  • Suresh Hariprasad Joshi; Tridip Suhrud (1998). Crumpled letter. Macmillan India.
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References
  1. "Bapu scholar feted by Sahitya Akademi". dna. 16 February 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. "Curriculum Vitae (of Tridip Suhrud)" (PDF). Gujarat Vidyapith. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  3. "Our Contributors". Indian Literature. 42 (5): 224. September–October 1998. JSTOR 23338795.
  4. "Sabarmati Ashram director Tridip Suhrud resigns". The Indian Express. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  5. "Dr Tridip Suhrud joins as Director of CEPT Archives – News". CEPT. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  6. "Dr. Tridip Suhrud – Member – Governing Council". MICA-The School of Ideas, Strategic Marketing and Communication program in India. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  7. Shail Mayaram (2013). Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj: Dialogical Meditations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi. SAGE Publications. p. 295. ISBN 978-81-321-1870-1.
  8. Shah, Rajiv (8 October 2015). "'I translated "Saraswatichandra" because we have not done it for 128 years"". Scroll.in. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  9. "SAHITYA : Akademi Awards". Sahitya Akademi. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
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