Harbhajan Singh (poet)

Harbhajan Singh was a Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator, and translator. Along with Amrita Pritam, Harbhajan is credited with revolutionising the Punjabi poetry writing style. He publishedcollections of poems, including Registan Vich Lakarhara,works of literary history and translatedpieces of literature of others including those of Aristotle, Sophocles, Rabindranath Tagore and selections from the Rig Veda.

Harbhajan Singh was born in Lumding, Assam, onAugust 1920 to Ganga Dei and Ganda Singh, his father, who was suffering from tuberculosis. The family had to move to Lahore where they bought two houses in Gawalmandi. His father died before he was one year old. Then his mother and two sisters died leaving him without a direct family by the time he wasyears of age. He was brought up by his mothers younger sister who lived in Ichhra, Lahore. He was educated in the local DAV School and was a top student from a very early age. In his educational ventures, he was among the top three in Punjab but had to stop his studies for lack of money. He took up odd jobs as a salesboy at a Homoepathic Chemist Shop in Lahore, as a lowerdivision clerk with the Government of India in New Delhi and then as an Assistant Librarian in Khalsa School, New Delhi.

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