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Kamlesh Gayakwad

Kamlesh Gayakwad is an Adivasi writer from Ghodmal in Vansda taluka of Navsari district in Gujarat. He writes in Kunkana and Gujarati. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Gujarati. Besides teaching in a college, he is engaged in research and documentation of the oral tradition in Kunkana and Varli languages of Adivasis of the region His publications include compilations of the tale of Varli Narandev, Kunkana folk songs, Kunkana Devkaren and Varli folk songs. He has won two Gujarati Sahitya Parishad (Ahmedabad) awards in 2012 for his Varli Narandev ni Katha.

તરાન પીસાં | Flight Feathers

Translated from the English to the Kunkana (Gujarati script) by Kamlesh Gaekwad અઠ બુહું પૅલિકનાં તે ઓવારાવર ગોળા હુયી જાનુકા  કુટબેના ફોટા જીસાં લાગ? વેટ વાવર આહા તળાવીહુન ત ડોંગરહુદીનાં ઝાડ ત યુધ્ધના દેશ આહા. ઉજે઼ડ ઝીલ સંઘર્ષનાં ગુલાબી ગળાં પરંપરાગત હોડી …

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