Jagdish Trivedi
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The Times of India, Jul 03 2016
Vijaysinh Parmar A popular humorist from Gujarat's Surendranagar, 49-year-old Jagdish Trivedi, had promised himself that he would go on to do PhDs despite having failed in class 11and 12 exams in the first attempt. Today , he has three doctorates. Trivedi's PhDs were a tribute to three personalities -late novelist Devshankar Mehta, humorist Shahbuddin Rathod and religious preacher Morari Bapu.
“I was humiliated by everyone after I failed classes 11 and 12,“ he said.
“I knew that I was not made for science and soon switched to arts. I passed class 12 later but I had taken a vow to get two doctorates to prove that I was not a dull student,“ Trivedi said.
He eventually earned three doctorates -one more than he had planned to take -but it was his choice of subjects that made the entire exercise a pleasure.
“I did my first PhD on late novelist Nana Devshankar Mehta, my literature guru,“ Trivedi said. Mehta, who wrote 63 novels and 96 short stories, was a farmer and a popular writer. “The last wish of a man convicted to death in Jamnagar was that he wanted to meet Mehta before he was hanged,“ Trivedi said, referring to the writer's popularity. Trivedi said that he spent his childhood with Mehta, who continued to worry till his last breath about “Jagdish, the naughty boy“.
His second PhD was on humorist Shahbuddin Rathod. “He was my kalaguru as it was Rathod who brought me into this field,“ said Trivedi, who started his career along with Rathod.
“I did my third doctorate on the popular religious preacher Morari Bapu,“ Trivedi said.
“He had come to my house in Surendranagar a few years ago when I was addicted to liquor. I felt guilty that I was drunk when a person like Bapu was visiting me. I decided to stop drinking after that incident and it changed my life,“ he said.
Trivedi said all the three people had changed him for the better at different stages of his life. “This was my way of expressing my gratitude,“ he said. Trivedi has a word of advice for students who feel hopeless after facing failures and think of committing suicide. “Life is too precious and it is to be used to learn from failures. I learnt from my failures. One just has to know what he is meant for,“ said the award-winning writer.
Trivedi has translated Harivansh Rai Bachchan's `Madhushala' in Gujarati and has also written 50 works of humour.
He has received seven awards, including the prestigious Jyotindra Dave Paritoshik of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 2006.
