Babu Suthar

Babu Suthar
Born	Panchmahal,Gujarat,India
Occupation	writer, poet, critic, linguist
Language	Gujarati
Nationality	Indian

Babu Kohyabhai Suthar(pronounced[ba.busu.tʰar]) is aGujaratiwriter, linguist, journalist and academic fromUnited States.Born and educated in India, he was a lecturer in South Asia Studies at theUniversity of Pennsylvaniain 2003, at the time the only full-time instructor in this language in North America at the university level.

As a linguist, he is primarily interested in South Asian Linguistics and Typological Linguistics and has completed PhD on Agreement in Gujarati at theMaharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda,under Bharati Modi. He had stint as journalist with the Gujarati newspaperSandeshprior to taking up full-time academic pursuits.

He has written on linguistic philosophy as well as on literary theories in Gujarati, including a recently published co-authored piece on Gujarati language inIndo-Aryan Languages(RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). With his roots in Panchamahals district of Gujarat he has done several studies on the post-modern nuances of Gujarati idiom at his home territory.

He has also prepared extensive language materials: three textbooks, one learner's dictionary as well as several other materials for teaching Gujarati, including Gujarati thematic vocabulary, pedagogic grammar and Parts of Speech.

Suthar has published four experimental novels calledKachando ane Darpan,Shrimad Kagadapachchisi,VakyakathaandValgad,and the fifth,Nidraviyoga,is in press.

He has a published poem collectionGurujaapa,while a secondSappherais in press. His short stories Dhuliyo and Lulo have been translated in English. He has also written a long fairy tale for children,Ek Hato Chhokaro,commissioned by the Ministry of Culture in India.

He was an editor ofSandhi,a Gujarati quarterly.

See also

• List of Gujarati-language writers

External links

• Gujarati Language and Literature
• Babu Suthar's Gujarati-English Dictionary