Prahlad Parekh

Criticism

The publication of Bari Bahar made a great impact and is considered the turning point of the Gujarati poetry. Gujarati writer and critic, Mansukhlal Jhaveri, noted in History of Gujarati literature that there is an undercurrent of sadness in Parekh's poetry.

Gulab ane Sivali (1938), a prose tale, and Ruperi Sarovarne Kinare (1962), a translation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's By the Shores of Silver Lake, count among his notable works, as do his two collections of poetry, Bari Bahar (Out from the Window; 1940) and Sarwani (The Spring; 1948). Parekh had also contributed to children's literature. Rajkumarni Shodhma and Karunano Swayamvar are his children's long stories and Tanmaniya is his unpublished collection of children's poetry. He translated one of Stefan Zweig's novels into Gujarati as Ajaninu Antar. Shistni Samasya (1962) is his introductory book on discipline.