Manjula Parekh nee Bakhda

Manjula Parekh was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1940 and came to Edinburgh in 1968 to work as a radiographer for National Health Service. Manjula is a woman of many talents. She has received the Millennium Fellowship Award. She attended the creative writing course at the Edinburgh University and now she writes in Gujarati, Hindi and English. In recent years, she has developed her interest in watercolour, acrylic, silk and oil painting. She has arranged exhibitions of her work to raise funds for Alzheimer Scotland, Buddhist monastery, Equality Choice Action Group and Tsumani. Her first book of stories with illustrations of many of her paintings and drawings called “Edinburgh Fables” was published in year 2001 in UK, India and Australia. She participates in Glasgow and Edinburgh Mushaira and proudly presents her poems on this website.

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• Poem 1 (PDF, 120kb)
• Poem 2 (PDF, 96kb)
• Poem 3 (PDF, 16kb)
• Poem 4 (Word, 127kb)
• Poem 5 (PDF, 15kb)
• Poem 6 (PDF, 16kb)
• Poem 7 (PDF 30kb)
• Poem 8 (PDF, 23kb)