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Sardar Panchhi (original name: Karnail Singh, born 14 October 1932) is 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 ...
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Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
poet. Sardar Panchhi is his pen name. He has written several songs for Bollywood movies. Notable of them are "
Ek Chadar Maili Si ''Ek Chadar Maili Si'' is a 1986 film, directed by Sukhwant Dhadda, and is an adaptation of Rajinder Singh Bedi's classic Urdu novella by the same name. The novel won the 1965 Sahitya Akademi Award. The film stars Hema Malini, Kulbhushan Kharb ...
" and "Waris."


Life

He was born (14 October 1932) and brought up at a village near
Gujranwala Gujranwala ( ur, , label=none; ) is a city and capital of Gujranwala Division located in Pakistan. It is also known as "City of Wrestlers" and is quite famous for its food. It is the 5th most populous city proper after Karachi, Lahore, Faisala ...
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British Punjab Punjab was a province of 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 under British co ...
(now in Pakistan). He was 17 when India got partitioned and he and his family had to migrate to India.Sardar Panchhi - a poet against narrow ideologies - Neeraj Bagga,Tribune News Service
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Books

Sardar Panchhi has written seven books in Punjabi, nine in Urdu and two in Hindi. * ''Mazdoor Ki Avaz'' * ''Sanvley Suraj'' * ''Suraj Ke Sakhe'' (, Publisher:Chetna Prakashan) * ''Adhoore But'' * ''Dard Ka Tarjuma'' * ''Turkre Turkre Ayana''(, Publisher:Chetna Prakashan) * ''Vanjhli de Sur'' * ''Shivranjni'' * ''NAKASH-E-KADAM'' * ''MERI NAZAR MEN AAP'' * ''UJALON KE HAMSAFAR'' * ''GULISTAN-E-AQIDAT'' * ''BOSTAN-E-AQIDAT'' * ''PANCHHI DEE PARVAZ'' * ''KADAM KADAM TANHAI''(, Publisher:Chetna Prakashan)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Panchhi, Sardar Urdu-language poets Punjabi-language poets 1932 births Living people People from Gujranwala District