Tridip Suhrud

Suhrud was born in 1965 in Anand, Gujarat. He completed a Master of Arts in Economics and Political Science and earned a Ph.D under Ashis Nandy for his thesis Narrations of a Nation: Explorations Through Intellectual Biographies, a socio-historical work on 19th century Gujarati literature in the context of autobiographies written by Narmad, Manilal Dwivedi and Govardhanram Tripathi.[2][3]

He served as a coordinator at the Behavioural Science Centre, St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad (1989–1992); as a visiting fellow at the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, CSDS, Delhi (1993–1994); as a faculty member at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (1994–2001); and as a professor at DAIICT, Gandhinagar (2001–2012).[2] After working for five years with Sabarmati Ashram as a director, he resigned in August 2017.[4]

In 2017, he was appointed as professor and director of CEPT Archives.[5]And in 2019 he was appointed as the provost for CEPT University. He is a member of the Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission of the Government of India.[6]

He translated several works from English into Gujarati, including Ashis Nandy's The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism as Antarang Ari, G. N. Devy's After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism as Smrutibhranshna Pagle Pagle and Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal's biography of Harilal Gandhi as Harilal Gandhi: A Life (2007).[1][7]

He translated two major works of Gujarati literature into English; Suresh Joshi's experimental novel Chhinnapatra (as Crumpled letter)[3] and Govardhanram Tripathi's epic novel Saraswatichandra.[8] He also translated the biography of Mahatma Gandhi in four volumes written by Narayan Desai into English from Gujarati.[7]

He translated Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj into Hindi.[1]

He received the Katha Award in 1999. He received Sahitya Akademi's Translation Prize in 2009 for his translated work, Harilal Gandhi: A Life.[1][9]

• Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal; Tridip Suhrud (2007). Harilal Gandhi: a life. Orient Longman. ISBN 978-81-250-3049-2.
• Tridip Suhrud (2009). Writing Life: Three Gujarati Thinkers. Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-81-250-3043-0.
• Tridip Suhrud (2010). An Autobiography, Or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Table of Concordance. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-57142-5.
• Mahatma Gandhi (2014). Beloved Bapu: The Gandhi-Mirabehn Correspondence. Orient Blackswan Private Limited. ISBN 978-81-250-5615-7.
• Kinnari Bhatt; Tridip Suhrud; Malvika Singh (2016). Apostle of the Twentieth Century--M. K. Gandhi: Curated by Kinnari Bhatt and Tridip Suhrud. Academic Foundation. ISBN 978-93-327-0203-5.
• Suresh Hariprasad Joshi; Tridip Suhrud (1998). Crumpled letter. Macmillan India.