Live interview of shiv kumar batalvi biography

00:00If you are even a little confused about Punjabi language and Punjabi literature,

00:05then you must have heard of Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

00:09This week is his 11th birthday.

00:13Shiv Kumar Batalvi was born in October, 1937.

00:17At the age of 25, he had set foot on the pedestal of fame and respect

00:23that very few people can reach at this age.

00:27At the age of 28, he had won the largest literary award in India,

00:31the Sahitya Akademi Award.

00:34But sadly, at the age of 35,

00:38he passed away in the month of May, 1973.

00:43At the age of 35, Shiv Kumar Batalvi

00:47turned Punjabi language into the wealth of a lion.

00:51And his songs were sung in the streets and villages

00:56as if they were folk songs.

00:59Shiv Kumar Batalvi says that his poetry

01:02had engulfed the whole of Punjab in its soft arms.

01:07Its fields, its gardens, its streets, its soil,

01:11its flowers, its thorns,

01:13all of them were thrown into a battle.

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