Who is Shunya Palanpuri and Biography

Who is Shunya Palanpuri

Shunya Palanpuri was Gujrati Gazalkar ,who born in Ahmedabad but spend their life in Palanpur as a teacher in “Amirbai Middle School“.

Name	Ali Khan Baloch
Nick name	Shunya (શૂન્ય ) , Rumani (રૂમાની ) Azal (અઝલ)
Study	Matric – Palanpur – 1938 ,Bahauddin college-junagadh-1940 (Put the study unfinished)
Occupation	Teacher ,Writer , Journalist
Born DOB	19 December 1922 , Leelapur, Ahmedabad
Mother	Nanibibi
Father	Usmankhan
Wife	Zubeda
Children	Tasmin ,Zahir , kamar, parwez
Death	17 March 1987 , Palanpur

1940 – Pajod darbar – Rushwa’s personal friend
1945-54 – teacher in amirbai middle School , Palanpur
1957 – 60 – live in patan and palanpur (Geet gazal Monthly)
1962 – journalist in Mumbai Sachar

Shunya Palanpuri grew up at her uncle’s house in Palanpur after her father died when he was four years old. Shunya Palanpuri started writing ghazals at the age of 16,in 1938 he wrote his first whole gazal.

after which he went junagadh for furthur studies where he met Amrut Ghayal who suggested to keep the name “Shunya”. He used to write his ghazals in both Urdu and Gujarati language.he also knows about farsi language. Although Shunya Palanpuri was a Muslim, he covered the words of Sanskrit and Hindu literature in his writings.

Along with being a poet, Shunya Palanpuri was also a good chess player, Horsh rider and a good cricketer.Shunya Palanpuri’s life was spent in sorrow so he could write better ghazals, His life experiences could be seen in his ghazals.Apart from being a teacher and poet, he has also been a journalist in Mumbai.