Punjab Newspaper

The octogenarian poet, famous for his unusual sting as a hallmark of his satirical comedy, Mr Hari Singh Dilbar of Sirsa in Haryana will ultimately get a chance to see himself on small screen. His latent, though long-cherished desire will get materialised with Punjabi University’s Vice-Chancellor, Dr Jaspal Singh making a formal announcement to make a documentary on the life and contribution of Mr Dilbar on the horizon of satirical comedy.


Dr Jaspal Singh made this declaration while presiding over a kavi darbar, organised by the University’s Directorate of Youth Welfare at the Kala Bhawan in which 20 poets recited their poetry in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. Mr Dilbar, well known for his chaukes and chhikes(fours and sixes) is perhaps the only celebrated poet from India, who is invited every year by the organisers of Punjabi Sahit Acadmey, New Delhi on the occasion of independent and republic day celebrations. One of his chuakas went like this: Azadi te aayi aie par aundi charh gayi karan andar,Iinqulab kharha hai aj vi rashan diyan ktaran andar,Ticket lain layi neta aidan aunde ne darbaran andar, Jidan khusra pagg bann ke beh jave sarkaran andar
Himself a noted poet and one of the participants in the kavi darbar, Dr Satsih Kumar Verma, Director, Youth Welfare, said that Punjabi University was the only institution in this part of the country to have made an effort to hold a tri-lingual satirical comedy festival on its campus. Earlier, the department had organised first-of-its-kind, religious poetry festival to commemorate the third centenary celebrations of gurta gaddi divas, he said. The other poets, who recited their poems, included Nashir Naqvi, Gurbhajan Gill, Sardar Panchhi, Jaswant Zafar, T.N. Raj, Jang Singh Fattar, J. Rathi, Daan Singh Komal, Amarajit Singh Amar, Jagjit Kaur Bholi, and Satish Kumar Verma.