Author: Tejwant Singh Gill
Editor(s): Tejwant Singh Gill
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 578
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-260-1999-9
Description
The volume includes selected writings of Sant Singh Sekhon, the most innovative writer of Punjabi in the 20th century. Starting his literary career as a poet of English, albeit of great promise, he shifted to Punjabi out of deep alignment with Punjab, its language, literature and culture.
Though modern literary forms, short story and one-act play for example, may have originated with his predecessors, they owe their beginning to him. If criticism has come to perform a directive role in interplay with writings in Punjabi, it was largely because he devised it as a creative genre. Included here are his critical articles, covering Punjabi poets of all the eras. Sekhon was also a prolific translator, professing a distinct theory of translation.
Neither literal conversion nor transliteration seemed veritable to him. Samples of his translation also figure in the volume in ample measure in which he seeks to pose a creative tension between Punjabi and English. Half the writing comprising this volume were written by Sekhon in English.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Sant Singh Sekhon-His Life, Times and Writings
POETRY
I Grope In The Dark
Women
My Revenge
The Picture
Earth
A Sop To The Enemy
One Has To Outgrow
At Random
Why?
Sometimes
I Want
Only One Face
A Young Woman
Fire Washed
For You Aren’t Near
Age
Death
O What A Song!
The Poet
Spanish Militiaman To His Wife
Midnight
Virgin Youth
The Stake Of Immortality
Us Sheep Us Lambs
Jawaharlal Nehru
Death
The Ravaged Breast
SHORT STORIES
Pemi’s Children
Some Random Remarks About Pemi’s Children
The Ploughman
Widow, Again
Blaming the Blameless
The Final Farewell
Sham Lal, Vedanti
Kesu Flowers
PLAYS
Mahatma
Fate
Why did The Ascetic Pine?
Fraternal Bondage
Eve At Bay
Sheikh Chili
Paragon Of Peace
Artist
NOVELS (EXCERPTS)
Husband and Wife
The Unloved Father
Shila
Bhagat Singh
Autobiography (Excerpts)
My Birthday and Childhood
All Over A Book
ARTICLES
The Writer And The State
Specificity Of Literature
Translation Is An Art
The Concept Of the Unity Of India In Punjabi Literature
Ranjit Singh And His Punjab
Impact Of The October revolution And Socialist Ideology On Punjabi Literature
The Jat In the Theatre
A Russian Scholar On Punjabi Literature
The Jat In the Theatre
A Russian Scholar On Punjabi Literature
A note On The Short-story
One Act Plays: Its Formal Norms
LITERARY CRITICISM
The Creed Of Guru Nanak In Prospect
Guru Nanak Dev’s Canon
Guru Arjan Dev: His Philosophical Content
Sheikh Farid’s Compositions
Guru Gobind Singh’s Prayer
Kissas And Romances
Bhai Vir Singh’s Poetry
Puran Singh and Puran Bhagat
Mohan Singh
Punjabi Criticism
Reading Hopkins’s
TRANSLATIONS (from Punjabi)
Sheikh Farid
Guru Nanak Dev’s Compositions
Guru Gobind Singh’s Prayer
>From Heer Waris
Shiv Batalvi’s Luna
I Believe
BIBLIOGRAPHY