Jagtar (23 March 1935 – 30 March 2010) was a
Punjabi
Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
Punjabi may also refer to:
* Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...
poet. He was widely credited for being a stickler for meter and rhyme. He was very popular among the politically conscious Punjabi readers having left-wing leanings. In the early period of his popularity he was known by his pen name Jagtar “Papiha” which he later dropped.
Life
Jagtar was born at
Rajgomal
Rajgomal is a village in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 2.5 km from postal head office in Rurka Kalan, 13.7 km from Goraya, 29.1 km from district headquarter Jalandhar and 134 km from state capital C ...
,
Jallandhar district, in
Punjab Province, British India
Punjab was a province of British Raj, British India. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company in 2 April 1849, and declared a province of British Rule, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall und ...
. In the early 1970s he attended
Panjab University to do his masters in Punjabi literature and did his Ph.D. on the critical study of Punjabi poetry in Pakistan from 1947 to 1972. He served as a college lecturer for most of his life. He wrote 32 books.
Works
* ''Ruttan-ranglian (1957)''
* ''Talkhian ranginian (1960)''
* ''Dudh pathiri (1961)''
* ''Adhura manukh(1967)''
* ''Lahu de naksh (1973)''
* ''Chhangya rukh (1976)''
* ''Sheeshe da jungle (1980)''
* ''Janjriyan vich ghiriya Samundar (1985)''
* ''Chunakri Sham (1990)''
* ''Jugnu Deeva Te Dariya (1992)''
* ''Akhan Waliya Paidan (1999)''
* ''Prawesh Dwar (2003)''
* ''Mom de Lok'' (2006)
* ''Pashāwara toṃ Sindha taka : safaranāmā''
References
Punjabi-language writers
Poets from Punjab, India
Indian male poets
20th-century Indian poets
1935 births
2010 deaths
20th-century Indian male writers
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi
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