YaarAnād Virtual Baithak Mēlā S1: E54 remembering Indian poet Dr Harbhajan Singh

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YaarAnād Virtual Baithak Series - Season 1, Episode 54 remembering Dr. Harbhajan Singh
Rāñgalī Satth (Virtual) Mēlā 54 with Dr. Surjit Patar, Navtej Bharati, and Madan Gopal Singh, remembering the late Indian poet, Dr. Harbhajan Singh, hosted by Bhai Baldeep Singh. They all joined live from Ludhiana (Punjab), London (Ontario), and Gurugram (Haryana), respectively, at 7:30 PM (India) on Wednesday, June 3, 2020.
About the series:
As an extension of the World Music Heritage Series conceived and produced by maestro Bhai Baldeep Singh for Anād Records, the YaarAnād Virtual Baithak Series aims to celebrate excellence in the field of music, arts, dance, theatre, and literature. The YaarAnād Virtual Baithak Series marks the 550th birth anniversary of Gurū Nānak Dēv, the first gurū of the Sikhs.
Il maestro:
Harbhajan Singh (18 August 1920 - 21 October 2002) was a Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator, and translator. Along with Amrita Pritam, Harbhajan Singh is credited with revolutionising the Punjabi poetry writing style. He published 17 collections of poems, 19 works of literary history, and translated 14 pieces of literature of others including those of Aristotle, Sophocles, Rabindranath Tagore, and selections from the Rig Veda.
Harbhajan Singh was born in Lumding, Assam, on 18 August 1920 to Ganda Devi 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 was 4 years of age. He was brought up by his mother's younger sister who lived in lchhra, 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 sales-boy at a Homeopathic Chemist Shop in Lahore, as a lower-division clerk with the Government of India in New Delhi, and then as an Assistant Librarian in Khalsa School, New Delhi. Singh completed his higher education without going to college, he had two degrees in English and Hindi Literature, both from the University of Delhi. His Ph.D. thesis discussed Hindi poetry in the Gurumukhi script. One of his three sons Madan Gopal Singh is a well-known singer and scholar.
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