Classify Sitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta

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Indian language poet, playwright, translator and academic,

Sitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta, also known as Sitanshu Yashaschandra (born 1941), is Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic from India.

He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, writer in 1987 for his poetry collection Jatayu. Subsequently, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the forth highest civilian award by Government of India, in 2006.

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Mehtas of Gujarat

In Gujarat, the term Mehta often means ‘teacher’ or ‘accountant’, probably because in colonial times many people with the Mehta surname were educated and took up those jobs.

Some Parsi families which migrated to Western India due to persecution by Muslim rulers in Persia, took Mehta as their surname with the most notable example being Zubin Mehta.

Mehtas are today among the most successful entrepreneurs and industrialists in Gujarat and Mumbai, of which the Mehta Group is an example.

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