Pr mohan singh biography in punjabi

He was well read in English, Persian and Urdu literatures. In , he joined as a lecturer in the Sikh National College, Lahore, but after some time he left the job and started a firm, Hind Publishers to promote the literary standards of Punjabi publications. In , he started his famous literary Punjabi monthly, Panj darya. Mohan Singh Prof. He was married to Basant Kaur.

After her demise he married Surjit Kaur. He spent his early years at his ancestral village Bhamial Rawalpindi.

Pr mohan singh biography in punjabi

In he joined Sikh National College , Lahore but he left the job to start his own publishing house. He also started literary magazine Panj Darya. Modern Punjabi poetry [ edit ]. See also [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Archived from the original on 8 January Retrieved 3 February Sahitya Akademi — via Google Books. Archived from the original on 3 December Retrieved 23 November The Tribune.

Retrieved 28 December Archived from the original on 18 August Then he became the teacher in Khalsa College, Patiala. Later, he worked as Professor Emeritus at the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana from to and made this industrial town of Punjab his home towards the end of his life. He died on 3 May at Ludhiana. Professor Mohan Singh was known as the father of modern Punjabi poetry.

The other poets who contributed significantly to the growth of modern Punjabi poetry in the initial years include Amrita Pritam, Harbhajan Singh and Shiv Kumar Batalvi. Mohan Singh has been hailed as the greatest Punjabi poet of the 20th century.