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
Bhai Gurcharan Singh
At 96, Bhai Gurcharan Singh, the elder brother of Bhai Avtar Singh, needs no introduction. Here we are singing a composition in Vadhans Barwa. Am editing his recent work in which he has notated 214 compositions in 50 ragas sung over the centuries by the Kirtaniyas of the gurus court. He always emphasizes my doubly-relatedness … Continue reading
Sushil Kumar Saxena
(b.1920) retired in 1986 as Professor of Philosophy from the University of Delhi where he started the teaching of aesthetics at the postgraduate level in 1964, and continued doing it till his retirement. His very first book, Studies in the Metaphysics of Bradley, won him the distinction of being the second Indian (after Dr. S. … 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
The Nada Yoga Debate upon request…
It started with the image being posted and then with Amarjeet questioning Surinder about the sign. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5101240&id=651111173 Amarjeet Singh whats is this sign for bhai sahib ji?! Thursday at 8:47pm · Like · Here Surinder had replied something like – Dear Amarjeet Singh Ji, this is the posture for SA in Nada Yoga. But he … 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
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