On May 11, 2024, eminent Punjabi poet, Surjit Patar breathed his last in his sleep in Ludhiana, Punjab. At the age of 79, his passing brought down curtains on the pen that had woven words in poetry to bring out the magic and mesmerize countless readers. True to his poem: Main rahan te nahin turda, main turda haan tan raah bande ne Yugan ton kafle aaunde, ise sach de gwaah bande (I don’t walk on the roads, I walk and then the roads are created. Since ages, caravans have witnessed this truth) Patar had created inroads into the literary world…
Author: NAVALPREET SINGH
Amritsar, one of the main cities of the state of Punjab, is home to some of the finest historical buildings that stand witness to times when legacy changed hands during history’s most important period. It was mainly the great Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the British colonial era that gave the imposing structures to this city. Photographer Navalpreet Singh walks down the memory lanes in Amritsar streets wielding his camera and capturing the fading beauties that stand imposing in various pockets of the walled city around Sri Harmandir Sahib – globally known as Golden Temple, Amritsar. Dr Balvinder Singh,…