A poet and admirer of Hindi literature, Jaswant freely expresses his views on the ills in society through his poems.

Jaswant Lal Khatik is a social worker and admirer of Hindi literature.

Jaswant hails from a village named Deogarh in the Rajsamand district of Rajasthan. He studied till eighth grade at a government school in his village. Thereafter, he completed the remainder of his schooling at Vidya Bhawan School in Udaipur. He did a B.Tech. in Computer Science from RIET, Jaipur.

When asked about his role models, Jaswant says that his father had always been his role model and guru. Besides, his wife, and poet Govind who is differently abled, are also a few of his role models.

If he could go back in time via a Time Machine, Jaswant would want to avert his mistake of not seriously appearing in the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya entrance test as his family did not want him to move away from home.

Talking about challenges in his life, Jaswant says that when his father met with an accident, he had to leave his settled job at an IT company in Udaipur and move back to his village to look after his family and shoulder their responsibilities. And it was quite challenging for him to again transition into a rural environment from city life.

Reviewing his COVID experience, Jaswant says that being a ward panch in his village, he distributed masks and sanitizer to the people there. On the personal front, the pandemic was quite challenging for him as he lost his father to the pandemic and he himself was also down with the virus.

To the youth, Jaswant advises them to take to literature to express their views on contemporary trends and ills in society and make people aware of them. Besides, he advises urban people to look after their rural counterparts, as not many people do social services in villages.

In his spare time, Jaswant likes to indulge in social work. He especially likes to help poor people and organize blood donation camps in his village in his free time.