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    Gieve Patel is an Indian poet, playwright, painter, and practicing physician based in Mumbai. He belongs to a group of writers focused on environmental protection. Patel's poems express deep concerns for nature and humanity's cruelty towards the environment. His body of work includes several poetry collections and plays. In addition to writing, Patel is also a practicing artist who has exhibited his paintings in India and abroad.

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    Gieve Patel

    Gieve Patel (born 18 August 1940)[1][2] is


    an Indian poet, playwright, painter,[3] as
    well as a practicing physician/doctor
    based in Mumbai. Patel belongs to a group
    of writers who have subscribed
    themselves to the 'Green Movement' which
    is involved in an effort to protect the
    environment. His poems speak of deep
    concerns for nature and expose man's
    cruelty to it. patel's works include poems
    (1966), How Do You Withstand. Body (197
    6) and Mirrored Mirroring (1991). He has
    also written three plays titled princes,
    Savaska, and Mr Behram.

    Early Life
    Patel was born in 1940 in Mumbai. His
    parents were from a small village called
    Nargol in southern Gujarat.[4] He started
    his education at St. Xavier's High School
    and Grant Medical College, Mumbai. He
    lives in Mumbai where he is a general
    practitioner.[5]

    Career
    Patel's poetry works include Poems, first
    launched by Nissim Ezekiel followed by
    How Do You Withstand, Body and Mirrored
    Mirroring. His plays include Princes,
    Savaksa and Mr Behram.

    He held his first show in Mumbai in 1966,


    went on to have several major exhibitions
    in India and abroad. Patel participated in
    the Menton Biemale, France in 1976. India,
    Myth and Reality, Oxford in 1982;
    Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy,
    London 1982. Patel belongs to an avant-
    garde grouping of artists based in Bombay
    and Baroda.[6]
    Patel has also exhibited for Contemporary
    Indian Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York City,
    1985, Indian Art from the Herwitz
    collection Worcester Art Museum,
    Massachusetts, 1985 and Coups de Coeur
    Geneva, 1987.

    He has been conducting a poetry


    workshop in Rishi Valley School for more
    than a decade. He edited a collection of
    poetry which was published in 2006.[7] His
    poetry is included in Anthology of
    Contemporary Indian Poetry[8] (BigBridge,
    United States). One of his Poems "Licence"
    from the collection How do you Withstand
    is included in the anthology Confronting
    Love edited by Arundhati Subramanyam
    and Jerry Pinto.

    He has been translating poems from the


    17th century Gujarati poet Akho into
    English.[9]

    Bibliography – poetry in
    English
    University
    Poems. Nissim Ezekiel, 1966
    How Do You Withstand, Body. Clearing
    House, (1976 )
    Mirrored, Mirroring. Oxford University
    Press, 1991
    On Killing a Tree

    See also
    Indian English Literature
    Indian Writing in English
    List of poets from Mumbai

    References
    1. International Who's Who in Poetry 2004.
    Taylor & Francis, 2003, p. 255
    2. http://www.poemhunter.com/gieve-
    patel/poems/
    3. Holland Cotter (February 24, 2006). "Art
    in Review; Gieve Patel and Sudhir
    Patwardhan" . The New York Times.
    Retrieved Feb 1, 2013.
    4. Pillai, Pooja (January 15, 2017). "Down
    the Rabbit Hole" . The Indian Express.
    5. About Gieve Patel
    6. Images of Survival and Transcendence:
    Exhibition Review by Ranjit Hoskote
    7. In conversation with Arundhathi
    Subramaniam
    8. "Anthology of Contemporary Indian
    Poetry Edited by Menka Shivdasani" .
    BigBridge.Org. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
    9. "Picture of perfection" . The Telegraph
    India. June 6, 2010.

    External links
    Patel's Artist Profile and Artworks
    Poetry International
    Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke

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