Gieve Patel (18 August 1940 – 3 November 2023) was an Indian poet, playwright, painter, as well as a physician.

[1] He belonged to a group of writers who had subscribed themselves to the Green Movement which was involved in an effort to protect the environment.

After becoming a doctor, he had initially worked in a government job in his native village of Nargol in southern Gujarat.

[10] One of his Poems Licence from the collection How do you Withstand is included in the anthology Confronting Love edited by Arundhati Subramanyam and Jerry Pinto.

These paintings originated from his experiences of sitting on a bench in a suburban railway station and watching the trains arrive and depart.

Even though the platforms are always crowded, one feels the painter's longing to find solitude in the chaos of the city through the serene images in his paintings.

Two men near a handcart, Vegetable seller, Bus stop, The Letter Home are some of his notable works.

Given his closeness to life and the increasing violence in society, Patel's paintings in the 1980s and 1990s often featured wounded people and images of the dead.

He participated in the Menton Biennale, France in 1976; India, Myth and Reality, Oxford in 1982; Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy, London 1982.

The story of Ekalavya in the Mahabharata is one of the subjects, where the narrative is centred on Eklavya's hand and broken thumb.