Dipak Bardolikar

Musaji Isapji Hafesji (23 November 1925 – 12 December 2019), popularly known by his pen name Dipak Bardolikar, was a Gujarati poet, writer and journalist. Born and educated in Bardoli, he was involved in the Indian independence movement. Following the partition of India in 1947, he moved to Karachi, Pakistan. After returning to India in the 1960s, he was deported by the Government of India to Pakistan. After working for a brief period in East Pakistan, he moved to Karachi where worked with several Gujarati-language dailies published from Karachi including the Gujarati edition of Dawn. He is widely recognised for his contribution to the diasporic Gujarati literature. He published several works of poetry and historical research along with two-volume autobiography.

Biography Dipak Bardolikar was born on 23 November 1925 at Bardoli (now in Surat district of Gujarat, India) to Isapji (Yusuf).

Works Bardolikar primarily contributed to ghazal poetry. His novels are Dhuliyu Akash and Bakhtavar.