Sohan singh seetal biography

Sohan Singh Seetal (1909-1998) was an Indian writer, poet and lyricist of Punjabi language.
Sohan Singh Seetal, a Punjabi writer whose books had flooded the scene when I was but a child and being led through the laneways of Punjabi and Gurmukhi.
Sohan Singh Seetal was an Indian writer, poet and lyricist of Punjabi language.

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SEETAL, SOHAN SINGH (1909 -)

Seetal, Sohan Singh entered the field of literary creation after 1947. He has written over a score novels most of which are romantic and sentimental. Among these Dive di Lo (The Flame of the Earthen Lamp), Mul da Mas (Flesh at a Price) and Badia (Revenge) deal with the eternal problem of woman about which most Indian writers and artistes cannot help being sentimental. Sohan Singh Seetal has in due course travelled from sentimentality, which often becomes macabre, to competent realism, although here also the projection of problems and their solution are not without a sentimental tinge.

On the whole, Seetal has described in his novels the countryside of Central Punjab and the life of its people as a kind of parallel to Nanak Singh who deals with urban life in the same tract of land. Both are reformist and sentimental to start with and then grow into realists in their later work but while Nanak Singh tends towards a kind of Gandhian Socialism, Seetal\’s concern with the peasant\’s life takes a populist form. His novel Jug Badal Gya won the

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Sohan Singh SeetalT. SHER SINGH

Michael Johnson was a young man, new with the Irish Christian Brothers’ Order, when he was sent to our school and became our Grade Seven teacher.

Fresh off the boat, he still had to get used to the maddening idiosyncracies of the land. Which meant that, every now and then, when he encountered some obtuse silliness, he would burst into one of his Irish fits of rage, and bounce around the classroom like a firecracker, afire and spluttering, until he ran out of powder and slumped back into his seat.

But not before he had delivered “four of the best” from Nelly, the leather strap, to the offending student‘s outstretched palm.

We giggled away in our seats, not only at the infraction that had triggered the outrage, but also by the sight of the fuming and cussing Irishman who seemed to lose all control of himself when in the grip of a rage: we had learnt by then that his fits were harmless and mere

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PUNJABI is the language of the Punjab. Spoken slightly differently in two parts of the Punjab after the State was politically split into two, East Punjab and West Punjab (or Pakistan Punjab), on 15 August 1947. But the Punjabispeaking population is not confined to the political boundaries of the two Punjabs. In India Punjabi is also spoken in vast areas of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and the Ganganagar district of Rajasthan. In Pakistan too there are Punjabispeaking areas beyond the West ern Punjab; they are in North Western Frontier Province, Sindh and some territories of Jammu and Poonch under Pakistan`s occupation at present. Dr George A. Grierson, author of the monumental. Linguistic Survey of India, accepts Western Punjabi the language of Western Punjab as an independent language; but all speakers of Eastern and Western Punjabi have always treated Western Punjabi as a dialect of Punjabi. Even on the basis of linguistic analysis it cannot be established that it is a language different from Punjabi. The label Lahnda, given it by Grierson, is also incorrect; it