Mahendrasinh Parmar

Mahendrasinh Parmar (મહેન્દ્રસિંહ પરમાર) is a Gujarati writer and professor from Gujarat, India. His works include Polytechnic (2016) and Rakhdu no Kagal (2016). He has also written plays.

Life
He was born on 2 October 1967 in Naliya, a town in Kutch district of Gujarat. He completed his Master of Arts in Gujarati literature from Bhavnagar University and received Ph.D. from same university in 1998. He serves as professor at Bhavnagar University since 1996.

He married in 1996 and has two daughters. He lives in Bhavnagar.

Works
Since 2002, his short stories appeared in various collections of Gujarati short stories. He has done numerous shows of public reading of literary works under the title Vachikam. His critical works were published as Pratham in 2009. Polytechnic (2016) is a short story collection while Rakhdu no Kagal (2016) is a collection of his personal essays. He wrote several plays.

Awards
His book Polytechnic (2016) was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award (2020).