Tridip Suhrud (born 19 December 1965) is an Indian writer, political scientist, cultural historian and translator from Gujarat, India.
He completed a Master of Arts in Economics and Political Science and earned a Ph.D. under Ashis Nandy for his thesis Narrations of a Nation: Explorations Through Intellectual Biographies, a socio-historical work on 19th century Gujarati literature in the context of autobiographies written by Narmad, Manilal Dwivedi and Govardhanram Tripathi.
[6] Currently he serves as Professor and Provost of CEPT University, Director of Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology and the Chairman of the Governing Council of MICA.
He translated several works from English into Gujarati, including Ashis Nandy's The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism as Antarang Ari, G. N. Devy's After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism as Smrutibhranshna Pagle Pagle and Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal's biography of Harilal Gandhi as Harilal Gandhi: A Life (2007).
[1][7] He translated two major works of Gujarati literature into English; Suresh Joshi's experimental novel Chhinnapatra (as Crumpled letter)[3] and Govardhanram Tripathi's epic novel Saraswatichandra.
Lilavati: A Life, Govardhanram Tripathi, translated with an Introduction by Tridip Suhrud (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2022).
The Power of Non-violent Resistance, Selected Writings, M K Gandhi; Edited with an Introduction by Tridip Suhrud (New York: Penguin Classics, 2019) 9.
M K Gandhi, An Autobiography or The story of My Experiments with Truth, A Critical Edition, Introduced with Notes by Tridip Suhrud, (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2018 and Yale University Press, 2018, Hamish Hamilton, 2019 ) 13.
Rashtravaad, Rabindranath Tagore, translated from the original English by Tridip Suhrud, Ahmedabad: Navajivan, 2017 14. Letters to Gandhi, vol.
Sarasvatichandra Part 3, Ratna Nagari’s Statecraft, Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Translated from the original Gujarati by Tridip Suhrud, Orient BlackSwan, 2016.
Sarasvatichandra Part 2, Gunasundari’s Household, Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Translated from the original Gujarati by Tridip Suhrud, Orient BlackSwan, 2016.
Sarasvatichandra part 1, Buddhidhan’s Administration, Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Translated from the original Gujarati by Tridip Suhrud, Orient BlackSwan, 2015.
SmritiBrhansh Ne PaglePagle, Translation of After Amnesia: tradition and change in Indian Literacy Criticism, Sahitya Academy, New Delhi, 2005 32.