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"name": "Sadhu Singh Hamdard",
"bio": "\nSadhu Singh Hamdard (1918–1984) was a well-known freedom fighter and journalist of Punjab, excelling in both Urdu and Punjabi and an innovative poet, who carried in his name the pseudonym 'Hamdard', \"sharing with all the pangs of their hearts,\" \"friendly towards all.\"\nAs a high school student, he was active in Chaudhri Sher Jang's group of the radicals in the Yug Paltai Dal, party to impart a radical turn to the age. The Dal was formed in 1939-40 by Giani Harbans Singh of Sarhala Khurd in Hoshiarpur district. The Dal ceased to exist after the arrest and execution of its founder Harbans Singh, Sadhu Singh then joined the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee taking over its publicity wing.",
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"name": "Hari Singh Dilbar",
"bio": "\nHari Singh Dilbar (c. 1929 – 3 May 2017) was a well-known Indian Punjabi language writer and poet.\nBorn around 1929 in Layallpur, British Punjab (present-day Faisalabad, Pakistan) Dilbar has been writing and reciting poems since 1943.",
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"name": "Jagtar (poet)",
"bio": "\nJagtar (23 March 1935 – 30 March 2010) was a Punjabi poet. He was widely credited for being a stickler for meter and rhyme. He was very popular among the politically conscious Punjabi readers having left-wing leanings. In the early period of his popularity he was known by his pen name Jagtar “Papiha” which he later dropped.\nJagtar was born at Rajgomal, Jallandhar district, in Punjab Province, British India. In the early 1970s he attended Panjab University to do his masters in Punjabi literature and did his Ph.D. on the critical study of Punjabi poetry in Pakistan from 1947 to 1972. He served as a college lecturer for most of his life. He wrote 32 books.",
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"name": "Kulbir Singh Kaang",
"bio": "\nKulbir Singh Kaang (Punjabi: ਕੁਲਬੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਾਂਗ), also spelled as Kulbir Singh Kang, was a noted, Shromani Sahitya Award winner, Punjabi writer and critic. After serving the Punjabi literature, language and culture for more than 48 years, he died after a prolonged illness on November 1, 2008 at his house in Amritsar in Indian Punjab.\nKaang was born in 1936, to father Gurcharan Singh, in Amritsar in British Punjab. He studied higher and received Master of Arts and PhD degrees. Later, he joined as a lecturer in a government college in 1969 and got retired in 1994.",
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"name": "Gurdev Singh Kaunke",
"bio": "\nGurdev Singh Kaunke (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਦੇਵ ਸਿੰਘ ਕਾਉਂਕੇ; 1949 – 1 January 1993) was a Sikh priest who served as the acting Jathedar of Akal Takht from 1986 to 1993.\nGurdev Singh was born in 1949 at village Kaunke Kalan under Jagraon subdivision of Ludhiana district in Punjab, India. His father was Gurdial Singh and mother Chand Kaur. Gurdev Singh's grandfather, Jathedar Totha Singh was a companion of Baba Nand Singh of Nanaksar. At a young age, Singh took the vows of the Khalsa and became an initiated Sikh. After completing 6 levels of primary school, he enrolled into Damdami Taksal.",
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"name": "Gurmeet Kaur (writer)",
"bio": "Gurmeet Kaur is a Punjabi American writer and publisher known for creating a series of children's books under the project Fascinating Folktales of Punjab.\nGurmeet was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and has ancestral roots in Jhelum and Bannu, British India (now Pakistan). She grew up in Indore, Madhya Pradesh and migrated to US after surviving the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.\nShe lives in Atlanta, Georgia and worked as an Engineer & a Software Architect for 25 years. She left her job in 2016 and dedicated herself to promoting Punjabi language.",
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"name": "Rajinder Kaur",
"bio": "Rajinder Kaur (10 February 1931 – 5 February 1989) was an Indian journalist and politician from Punjab, India.\nKaur was daughter of Master Tara Singh. She studied at Khalsa College, Amritsar and Punjab University, Chandigarh, and Camp College, New Delhi for M.A. in Philosophy, B.T. (Bachelor of Teaching) and Ph.D. in Philosophy. She was lecturer at Khalsa College, Amritsar in 1958–59. Later she entered journalism and politics. She edited Punjabi daily Parbhat and the monthly Sant Sipahi from Amritsar. She was president of the Istri Akali Dal, women's wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal. In April 1978 Rajinder Kaur was elected to the Rajya Sabha. She was shot dead by Khalistani terrorists at Bhatinda in February 1989.\n",
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"name": "Sardar Mohammad Khan",
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"name": "Chaman Lal",
"bio": "Chaman Lal (born 27 August 1947 in Rampura Phul, Bathinda district Punjab) retired as a professor in Hindi translation from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is now Honorary advisor to Bhagat Singh Archives and Resource Centre, Delhi Archives of Delhi Govt.cn date=March 2021\nLal won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002 but returned the award in protest in 2016.\nThis article about a poet from India is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.",
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"name": "Harinder Singh Mehboob",
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"name": "Shafqat Tanvir Mirza",
"bio": "\nShafqat Tanvir Mirza – known by many as STM (6 February 1932 – 20 November 2012) was a Pakistani writer and a journalist. He was also a journalist union leader and was sent to jail twice because of his activities on behalf of newspapers he worked for.\nBorn in the village of Domeli, in the Punjab province of Pakistan, he studied at schools in Chakwal, Khushab, Wazirabad, Attock, Bahawalnagar and at Gordon College, Rawalpindi. Mirza's earlier career centred on Rawalpindi, where he worked for the daily newspapers Tameer and Hilal, as well as at Radio Pakistan. In 1970, he joined Daily Musawat, subsequently moving on to Daily Imroze, where he became the editor. In the 1990s, Shafqat Tanvir Mirza joined the English language newspaper Dawn, where he contributed regular columns on Punjabi language and culture.",
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"name": "Narendra Mohan (poet)",
"bio": "Narendra Mohan (born 30 July 1935, in Lahore) is a Hindi author, poet and playwright.\nHe has published twelve collections of poems, Nine plays, Thirteen books of literary criticism, and Twenty edited books on various themes and genres. His poems, plays, and critical articles have been translated into Punjabi, Urdu, Marathi, English, Telugu, Kannada, and other Indian languages.\nMohan got his Ph.D. in Modern Hindi Poetry (Adhunik Hindi Kavita Mein Aprastut Vidhan) at Panjab University in 1966. A number of poems and articles appeared starting in 1954 and by 1960, he was well-known in literary circles.",
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