Dipak Bardolikar (original) (raw)

Musaji Isapji Hafesji (23 November 1925 – 12 December 2019), popularly known by his pen name Dipak Bardolikar, was a Gujarati poet, writer and journalist. Born and educated in Bardoli, he was involved in the Indian independence movement. He moved to Karachi in Pakistan after the partition of India. After returning to India in 1960s, he was deported by the Government of India to Pakistan. After working for a brief period in East Pakistan, he moved to Karachi. He worked with several Gujarati dailies published from Karachi including Gujarati edition of Dawn. He is widely recognised for his contribution to the diasporic Gujarati literature. He had published several works of poetry and history research. He also published his two-volume autobiography.