Avtar pash biography of mahatma

Punjabi poet

For other uses, see Pash (disambiguation).

Avtar Singh Sandhu (9 September – 23 March ), who wrote under the pen namePash,^[1] was an Indian poet, one of the major poets in Punjabi of the s.

He was killed by Sikh extremists on 23 March ^[2] His strongly left-wing views were reflected in his poetry.

Early life and activism

Pash was born as Avtar Singh Sandhu in in a small village called Talwandi Salem in Jalandhar district of Punjab, India, in a middle-class farmers family.

His father Sohan Singh Sandhu was a soldier in the Indian Army who also composed poetry as a hobby.

Avtar pash biography of mahatma gandhi

Pash grew up in the midst of the Naxalite movement, a revolutionary movement in India against the landlords, industrialists, traders, etc. who control the means of production. This was in the midst of the Green revolution which had addressed India's problem of famine using high yield crops, but had also unconsciously led to other forms of inequities in Punjab.^[3