Shiv Kumar Batalvi
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Shiv Kumar, better known by his pen name Shiv Kumar Batalvi, was an Indian poet, writer and playwright of the Punjabi language. He was most known for his romantic poetry, noted for its heightened pass
Shiv Kumar Batalvi during an interview with the BBC in 1970
Shiv Kumar Batalvi reciting poetry, near Ludhiana. April 1962
Shiv Kumar in Southall, 1971
Batalvi with M. S. Randhawa, and poets from Punjab including Sahir Ludhianvi, Ludhiana, 1970
Gurbaksh Singh
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Gurbaksh Singh was an Indian novelist and short story writer with more than fifty books to his credit in Punjabi. He is also considered the father of modern Punjabi prose and received Sahitya Akademi
Shiv Kumar Batalvi
…prefigure numerous other partings that would serve as material to distil into poems. Perhaps the most celebrated such episode is his fascination for Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari's daughter who left for Venezuela and married someone else. When he heard of the birth of her first child, Shiv wrote 'Main ik shikra yaar banaya…
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Preet Lari March 1935 Issue