Anād Kāv Sanmān 2010
Punjabi Poet Dr. Jaswant Singh Neki has been conferred the Anād Sanmān for the year 2010. Poet brothers, Navtej Bharti and Ajmer Rode, have been chosen for the Anād Kāv Sanmān 2010.
Since April 2008, The Anād Foundation has organized the poetry festival Anād Kāv Tarang. To honour the sweet memory of the Punjabi poetess Bibi Baljit Kaur Tulsi, the Anad Foundation started Anād Kāv Tarang Poetry festival and Anād Kāv Sanmān in 2008. The award, offered to eminent poets by the Tulsi Family, includes a cash prize of Rupees 2.25 lacs, a citation, a tāmra-patra and a … Continue reading
Surjit Patar receives the prestigious Saraswati Sanman
This Friday, Poet Surjit Patar received the prestigious Saraswati Sanman. He is only the 3rd Punjabi after Poets Dr. Harbhajan Singhand Dalip Kaur Tiwana to have received this award. The speech of the Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri Kapil Sibal, also a poet, was fabulous – his choice and recitation of Surjit Patar’s English translations was very … Continue reading
Nada Yoga Debate Part III
Kamalroop Singh Dear Harshdeep Singh, Vahiguru ji ka Khalsa, Vahiguru ji ki fateh! In reference to your second paragraph above, the style of the Dhrupad reets in the Gurmat Sangeet performed by Bhai Avatar Singh ji, is clearly different compared to that of Bhai Baldeep Singh ji in the video clips provided above. I think … Continue reading
I can be seen putting the joint of a Taus
October 1995. Gyani Harbhajan Singh Mistri, me and Professor Dharam Singh Khalsa at Mahalpur, Hoshiarpur. I can be seen putting the joint of a Taus. A major moment in the revival of these once extinct instruments.
Gyani Harbhajan Singh Mistri of Dandian, Hoshiarpur (1920-1995)
A very humble WWII veteran who won a major skirmish against the Japanese virtually single handed and a master craftsman. He was a student of the legendary Ustad Bhai Batan Singh of Mehli, Phagwara and a witness to the countless duals that the great Ustad won against – well…. Bhai Batan Singh defeated Ustad Bhai … Continue reading
An image that moves me emotionally – always
A grand man, humility-incarnate.
ustad Bhai Arjan Singh ‘Tarangar’ 1900-1995.
At the age of 5, his father the legendary Bhai Ram Singh of Village Bhullar, Tarn Taran in Amritsar, offered the young child nicknamed ‘Chiri’ to Bhai Sahib Bhai Jwala Singh of Thatha Tibba, Kapurthala. His early education in singing and playing the taus began under the watchful gaze of BHai Sahib Jwala Singh while … Continue reading
A photo that sings
A photo that sings – Bhai Sahib Bhai Jwala Singh Ragi of Thatha Tibba, Kapurthala. 1935 at Dera Sahib, Lahore. On the Jori is Bhai Gurcharan Singh and at about 10 years old is Bhai Avtar Singh playing the Taus. The handsome little boy, on the extreme left, is Bhai Rattan Singh, a gurbhai of … Continue reading
This man murdered my nephew!
GURVINDERPAL SINGH, who shot and along with his friends bludgeoned my nephew, Prabhdeep Singh, to death. Prabhdeep, the boy friend of the accuseds’ daughter, was 22+ at the time of his murder.
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