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Amarjit Singh Gill
Amarjit may refer to * Amarjit Chandan, British-Punjabi writer * Amarjit Chopra, Indian chartered accountant * Amarjit Kaypee , Indian cricketer * A. S. Dulat, Amarjit Singh Dulat, Indian intelligence officer * Amarjit Singh Kiyam, Indian footballer * Amarjit Singh Rana, Indian field hockey player * Amarjit Singh Sahi, Indian politician * Amarjit Singh Samra, Indian politician {{given name Sikh names Indian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amarjit Chandan
Amarjit Chandan ( Punjabi: ਅਮਰਜੀਤ ਚੰਦਨ, born 1946) is a Punjabi writer, editor, translator and activist. He has written eight collections of poetry and five collections of essays in Punjabi. He has been called "the global face of modern Punjabi poetry". He has published over 25 books of poetry and essays. He has edited over 15 books of poetry and essays. His work has been translated into many languages including Arabic, Brazilian-Portuguese, Catalan, Greek, Italian, Slovene, Spanish and Turkish. Biography Initial years in Kenya He was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1946 where his father Gopal Singh Chandan, worked in the railways as a carpenter and later on took up photography as full-time profession. He was also a leader of the clandestine Kenyan Ghadar Party, he worked as the general secretary of the Labour Trade Union of East Africa from 1940 to 1947 and the local Sikh community. He facilitated the travel of quite a few Ghadris through Kenya en route Mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
