Book shop in vegetable Market
ਪਟਿਆਲੇ ਅਰਬਨ ਅਸਟੇਟ ਵਿਚ ਸਬਜ਼ੀ ਖਰੀਦ ਦਿਆਂ ਕਿਤਾਬਾਂ ਦੀ ਦੁਕਾਨ ਦੇਖ ਮੈਂ ਦੰਗ ਰਹਿ ਗਿਆ।
ਕਾਊਂਟਰ ਤੇ ਖੜ੍ਹੇ ਕੁੜੀਆਂ ਮੁੰਡਿਆਂ ਨੇ ਦੱਸਿਆ ਕਿ ਉਹ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ ਵਿਚ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਭਾਗ ਦੇ ਵਿਦਿਆਰਥੀ ਹਨ।
ਕਿਤਾਬਾਂ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਤੱਕ ਲੈ ਕੇ ਜਾਣ ਦਾ ਇਹ ਵਧੀਆ ਯਤਨ ਹੈ।
ਹੋਰਨਾਂ ਵਿਦਿਆਰਥੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਵੀ ਆਪੋ ਆਪਣੇ ਇਲਾਕੇ ਵਿਚ ਇਹੋ ਜਿਹੇ ਯਤਨ ਕਰਨੇ ਚਾਹੀਦੇ ਹਨ
–ਬਰਜਿੰਦਰ ਨਸਰਾਲੀ

AJMER RODE’S POEMS: A STUDY
Dr. M.B. Gaijan Head, Department of English Samaldas Arts College, Shri M. K. Bhavnagar University Bhavnagar, Gujarat
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Abstract: In 20th century Canada remained multicultural fascination world for the world community due to liberal immigration policy, multicultural, multilingual social acceptability. As a result humanity all over the world preferred to accept Canada as their “Dream Land”. Thus, Canada emerged as the rainbow-coloured nation. Indians have also preferred Canada as their “Dream Land”. Thus Canada becomes “Second Home” for the large number of Punjabis, Jains, Marathis and Gujaratis. These Indians couldn’t forget their homeland, culture, and their roots. By their literary works they paint their “roots”, “India”, “culture”. Among all Indo-Canadian writers, Ajmer Rode’s contribution is indeed remarkable. He is a playwright, director, translator and poet. He is writing in Punjabi as well as in English. Because of his unique contribution he is awarded by the State Government of Punjab. He is also a leading poet of Canada. Being a Punjabi, his poems remain highly significant to understand Indian’s culture. In the final text of this paper Ajmer Rode’s selected poems are considered for the study. For full article go to the link below.

http://expressionjournal.com/downloads/38.-dr.-m.b.-gaijan-paper.pdf

When Navtej Bharati and I saw Om Puri in 1999 in his Mumbai apartment he lived with writer Nandita Puri and their son Ishaan. An…d a dog that was blind. Om said he picked up the dog when it was a blind puppy abandoned by his mother on this very apartment street; we raised him along with Ishaan, he said. The little story was so moving, said so much more about the great actor.

And those who met Puri know he was a Punjabi in and out. When we presented him a copy of our newly published book Leela he immediately opened it and read a poem to three of us, including Nandita who being a Bengali merely smiled. (The picture was taken by Shahzad N Khan,  Vancouver, 2010)