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Avtar Singh Sandhu (–), known as Pash, was a radical Punjabi poet born in Talwandi Salem, a village near Jalandhar.
Avtar Singh Sandhu, better known as Pash, was one of Punjab's acclaimed poets of resistance..
Pash
Punjabi poet
For other uses, see Pash (disambiguation).
Avtar Singh Sandhu (9 September 1950 – 23 March 1988), who wrote under the pen namePash,[1] was an Indian poet, one of the major poets in Punjabi of the 1970s.
He was killed by Sikh extremists on 23 March 1988.[2] His strongly left-wing views were reflected in his poetry.
Early life and activism
Pash was born as Avtar Singh Sandhu in 1950 in a small village called Talwandi Salem in Jalandhar district of Punjab, India, in a middle-class farmers family.
His father Sohan Singh Sandhu was a soldier in the Indian Army who also composed poetry as a hobby.
Avtar Singh Sandhu – with the pen name 'Paash' – is commonly celebrated as one of India's highly prominent revolutionary poets in contemporary times.Pash grew up in the midst of the Naxalite movement, a revolutionary movement in India against the landlords, industrialists, traders, etc. who control the means of production. This was in the midst of the Green revolution which had addressed India's problem of famine using high yield crops, but had also unconsciously led to other forms of inequ