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{{Short description|Literary workshop on Gujarati poetry}}
{{Infobox
| name = Budh Sabha
| title = Budh Sabha
| subheader = Poetry workshop
| image = [[File:Budh Sabha Ahmedabad.jpg|200px]]
|caption =Budh Sabha, April 2014
| header =
| label1 = President
| data1 = [[Dhiru Parikh]]
| label2 = Founder
| data2 = [[Bachubhai Ravat]]
| label3 = Established
| data3 = 1932
|label4= State
|data4= [[Gujarat]]
|label5= City
|data5= [[Ahmedabad]]
| label6 = Location
| data6 = [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]
}}

'''Budh Sabha''' is a weekly [[Literary circle|literary workshop]] on [[Gujarati literature|Gujarati poetry]] held on every Wednesday since 1932. It is currently presided by writer [[Dhiru Parikh]] and held at [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]], [[Ahmedabad]].

== History ==
[[File:Kumar Trust.jpg|thumb|Kumar office]]
During the [[Indian independence movement]], [[Umashankar Joshi]], [[Tribhuvandas Luhar|Sundaram]] and Ramprasad Shukla used to go to office of [[Kumar magazine]] for night stay and the used to discuss their poetry. During the same time, a photography club called Niharika used to gather there every week. Shivram Bhatt, a member of Niharika, suggested weekly poetry workshop on the same line. So the weekly Budh Sabha, literally Wednesday meet, was established in 1932 by [[Bachubhai Ravat]], then editor of ''Kumar'' megazine. It used to be held at the office of ''Kumar'' at Raipur Chakla in [[Ahmedabad]]. A month before death of Ravat in July 1980, the venue was shifted to [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] which was then located in premises of H. K. Arts College and [[Dhiru Parikh]] become the president of Budh Sabha who had joined the Budh Sabha as a student in 1966. When the new building of Parishad was constructed on bank of [[Sabarmati river]] (now [[Sabarmati Riverfront|Riverfront]]), the venue was shifted there. It was initially known as "Budhvariyun" which was later renamed "Budh Bethak" and finally "Budh Sabha".<ref name=BS>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4aTActHVmM|title= Introduction of Budh Sabha by Dhiru Parikh|author=Sahitya Vimarsh |date= 30 July 2013 |website= |publisher=Sahitya Vimarsh |access-date= 30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Khan |first=Saeed |title=Master of metre |website=Times of India |date=18 August 2013|url=http://m.timesofindia.com/city/ahmedabad/Master-of-metre/articleshow/21889395.cms}}</ref><ref name="ng">{{Cite web|url=http://navgujaratsamay.indiatimes.com/editorial/sampadkiya/navgujarat-samays-editorial-on-gujarati-literature-bachubhai-ravat/articleshow/31059469.cms|title=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય-સંસ્કૃતિના સંવર્ધક બચુભાઇ રાવત|date=26 February 2014|access-date=3 February 2016|language=gu|publisher=[[NavGujarat Samay]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202190338/http://navgujaratsamay.indiatimes.com/editorial/sampadkiya/navgujarat-samays-editorial-on-gujarati-literature-bachubhai-ravat/articleshow/31059469.cms|archive-date=2 February 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Taking inspiration from the meet, similar weekly meets are organised in other cities of [[Gujarat]] including [[Surendranagar]], [[Vadodara]], [[Rajkot]] and [[Bhavnagar]].<ref name=BS/>

In Budh Sabha, the president Dhiru Parikh (Bachubhai Ravat formerly) collects poems from all attending poets first. Then each poem is recited and discussed without revealing the name of poet. If the poem deemed good after discussion, it gets published in poetry magazine [[Kavilok]] (in [[Kumar (magazine)|Kumar]] formerly). In 1998, similar workshop called Shani Sabha (Saturday Meet) is also started by [[Chinu Modi]] for the modern poets.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Ashok Chavda |author-link=Ashok Chavda |editor=Dhiru Parikh |editor-link=Dhiru Parikh |title=બુધસભા અને હું |language=gu |magazine=Kumar |date=June 2013 |publisher=Kumar Trust |location=Ahmedabad |pages=35}}</ref>

Budh Sabha helped nurture several prominent Gujarati poets and writers like [[Umashankar Joshi]], [[Rajendra Shah (author)|Rajendra Shah]], [[Harshad Trivedi]], [[Chinu Modi]], [[Niranjan Bhagat]], [[Raghuveer Chaudhari]], [[Pravin Pandya]], [[Rajendra Shukla (poet)|Rajendra Shukla]], [[Rajesh Vyas]], [[Bhavesh Bhatt]], [[Anil Chavda]] and [[Ashok Chavda]].<ref name="Budh Sabha, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad">{{cite web | title=બુધસભા, ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ | website=Budh Sabha, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad | url=http://www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com/shikshan/pravruti/budhsabha.html | language=gu | accessdate=2017-01-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia
|encyclopedia=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યકોશ (Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature)|editor=Chandrakant Topiwala|editor-link=Chandrakant Topiwala|author=Ramesh Dave|year=1996|publisher=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|volume=Vol. 3|location=Ahmedabad|page=422}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of poets from Budh Sabha]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Literary circles]]
[[Category:Gujarati literature]]

Budh Sabha - Revision history

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