POSTER POEMS ( 1986-1989)
when my Punjab was feeling the heat of extremism, each one was thinking that when and how this phase will come to an end. Artists, writers, theatre-persons all were divided into 2 sections. One was keeping silence and were posing to be more intellectuals and the second section was actively participating against the negative forces. Poets - writers were writing on the issues concerned, Nukkad Natak and theatre shows were organized all over Punjab, Painters were painting the agony of the environment. In this situation i choose my role and started painting poster-poems (Amrita Pritam suggested this name for the form i was creating) in which i painted an image related to the extract of poem on art sheets with poster colors. The range of poets from the galaxy was from Baba Farid to the contemporary poets of my language. I made around 70 frames and it got an enthusiastic response from the viewers in different exhibitions in north zone. After then Gursharn Bha ji asked me if he could take the responsibility of shows, and i happily. He exhibited the show in each of his performance for many years. So this was my part to make the common man aware of the fact that what was happening in our state......
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Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi with the coordination of Punjabi Sahit Academy, Ludhiana organized
Poets' Meet & Seminar on Tagore as an Indian Legend (On the occasion of 150th Birth Anniversary Celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore)
13-14 August 2010 at Punjabi Bhavan, Ludhiana Programme
Poets' Meet (Friday, 13 August 2010, 5.00 p.m.)
ChairS.S. Noor (Vice-President, Sahitya Akademi),Chief Guest Surjit Patar
Participant Poets:Biswajit Chattopadhyay (Bengali),Leeladhar Jagoori (Hindi),Sushil Jain (Hindi), Manjunath Latha (Kannada), Chandrakanta Mura Singh (Kokborok), Anupama Uzgare (Marathi), Jaswant Deed (Punjabi), Vanita (Punjabi), Jaswinder (Punjabi), Neetu Arora (Punjabi) Kaaf Nizam (Urdu)
Seminar on Tagore as an Indian Legend (Saturday, 14 August 2010) First Session, 10.00 11.30 a.m.
Welcome: K.S. Rao ,Deputy Secretary, Sahitya AkademiPresidential Address:S.S. Noor,Vice-President, Sahitya Akademi, Key-note address:Swapan Mazumdar(Eminent Bengali Writer)
Vote of thanks:Sukhdev Singh(Secretary, Punjabi Sahitya Akademi, Ludhiana}
Second Session, 11.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
Chair:Surjit Patar (Reading Tagore Poetry in Punjabi)Papers:Dolly Roy (Contribution of Rabindranath Tagore to Indian Music)
Atamjit (Rabindranath Tagore's Dramaturgy) Sudhir Kumar (Rabindranath Tagore's fiction in context of Indian Ethos Narendra Mohan (Rabindranath Tagore's Poetry)
Third Session, 2.30 4.00 p.m.
Chair:Gurbhagat Singh Papers:Seema Bawa (Rabindranath Tagore's World of Colours and Contours)
Mina Surjit Singh (Eco-Philosophical perspective of Rabindranath Tagore) and Amarjit Grewal: interaction of Tagore with other Scholars of the World
Programme was conducted by: Swarnjit Savi
THE FOUNDATION OF SAARC WRITERS AND LITERATURE in collaboration with Indian Council of Cultural Relations organized 33rd SAARC Festival at India International Centre, New Delhi from 26th – 28th March-2010 under the dynamic leadership of Ajit Caur and her Artist daughter Arpana Caur.In this festival Writers and Intellectuals, artists and environmentalists, academicians and media persons, performing and visual artists, folklorists and historians participated with zeal n zest from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri lanka .
Dr Karan Singh Inaugurated the Festival .Abid Hussian, Gulzar, Sita Kant Mhahapatra, Jayanta Mahapatra, Ashok Vajpai, Kuwar Narain, Baba Sewa Singh, Sant Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, Indra Goswami, K Sachidanandan, J P Dass, Surjit Patar, Jayabala Vaidya, Jasbir Jain,, Renuka Singh, Manmohan Singh Mitwa, Taranum Riaz, Paul Kaur, J Bhagayalaxmi, Arvinder Kaur Sukhwinder Amrit and Swarnjit Savi from India . Nihal Rodrigo, Jean Arasanayagam, S W K Kotagama, Parsad karyavasam, Parvati Arasanayagam, Lanshatha Athukorala, Issath Rehana Azeem, Refaqat Ali Khan from Sri Lanka, Chenkyab Dorji, Kunzang Choden, Tshering Dorgi, Kinga Choden from Bhutan, Hamid Mir, Sarmad Sehbai, Fahmida Raiz, Nosheen Saeed, Mubeen Mirza, Akhtar Hussain Akhtar, Muhammad Asim Butt, Tahira Iqbal, Fakhar Zaman, Nida Mahmood, Kishwar Naheed, Abdaal Bela, Asad Mohammad Khan, Raza Rumi, Arshad Mehmood Nashad, Saeeda Bano Risham, Raashid Hameed, Muhammad Aslam Siraj Din, Naila Hussain, Abrar Ahmad, Rasheed Amjad, Humera Rahat, Nisar Ahmed Choudhury, Farhana Farhan, Nayara Reahman, from Pakistan.Zareen Anzoor, Arifa Omarloor, Nadjib Manalai, Alam Gul Sahar, A K Rashid, Helmand Bakhtani, Nasurullah Partaw Naderi from Afghanisthan .Robina Huq, Quazi Rozy, Jharna Rehman, Abu Syed Golam Dastgir, Papree Rehman, Mehbooba Nasreen, Nitupurna from Bangladesh nd some others from Maldives and Nepal.
First evening was a feast of Kuchi Puti Dance.Here are some pics for you………..
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