Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmen (2006), the second anthology of Jayant Parmar (b.1954) won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009. A collection of nazms and ghazals, the book is unique in its amalgamation of Dalit angst with the aesthetics of Urdu poetry. A bilingual poet, Parmar has published equally extensively in Gujarati.

His Gujarati poems vocally express his Dalit concerns. But, Urdu, he claims, is his first love and he has chosen to dedicate himself to Urdu. He has written both nazms and ghazals in Urdu. His works include Aur(1999), Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein (2006), Manind (2007), and Antaral (2010). This book is an English translation of the award-winning book along with the translator’s introduction and English translation of critical pieces written by other eminent critics on Parmar’s poetry.