Digish Mehta

Digish Nanubhai Mehta (12 July 1934 ― 13 June 2001) was a Gujarati language essayist, novelist and critic from Gujarat, India. He was born on 12 July 1934 at Patan (now in Gujarat, India). He completed his primary and secondary education from Sidhpur. He matriculated in 1949. He completed BA in English and Psychology from Dharmendrasinhji College, Rajkot in 1953. He completed MA from Gujarat College and joined Ramanand Mahavidyalaya (now H. K. Arts College) in June 1955 as a professor of English. He went to University of Leeds, England in 1967 and completed MA in 1968. In 1970, he joined School of Languages, Gujarat University as the Reader in English. In 1982, he completed PhD on T. S. Eliot. He retired on 31 October 1994. He died on 13 June 2001 at Ahmedabad.