title: Govardhanram: Chintak ne Sarjak
text: # Govardhanram: Chintak ne Sarjak
  
  Govardhanram: Chintak ne Sarjak (English: Govardhanram: The Thinker and Creative Artist), which was written by Indian writer Vishnuprasad Trivedi, is a 1962 Gujarati critical text about Gujarati writer Govardhanram Tripathi. It is considered an important work on Govardhanram.
  
  ## Publication history
  
  Vishnuprasad Trivedi delivered a series of five lectures at Gujarat University from 16 August to 20 August 1960 at the inaugural session of the Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi Lecture Series, which was sponsored by N. M. Tripathi Pvt. Ltd., a Bombay-based publisher. The lectures were published as a book titled Govardhanram: Chintak ne Sarjak by N. M. Tripathi Pvt. Ltd. in 1962.
  
  ## Contents
  
  The first lecture introduces Govardhanram's philosophy of life. The next chapter presents a study of Saksharjivan (Life of Scholar), a work by Govardhanram that reflects his concept of scholarly and literary life. The third lecture evaluates Govardhanram's poetry and the fourth lecture evaluates Govardhanram's best-known work, a novel titled Saraswatichandra. While discussing the novel, Trivedi discusses the techniques and prose style adapted by Govardhanram.
  
  Trivedi tries to argue Govardhanram is greater as a "Sarjak" – a creative artist – than as a "Chintak", a reflective thinker.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Critic Mansukhlal Jhaveri cited these lectures as "an important contribution' to literature on Govardhanram. Reviewer R. M. Patel wrote; "perhaps it is the best study and evaluation of Govardhanram done so far".
  
  