JASPAL SINGH BHATTI USED HIS COMEDY TO NOT MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH BUT TO SATIRE GOVERNMENT AND ITS POLICIES

BIRTH AND EARLY 🧬

. Born on 3 march 1955 in Amritsar Punjab .

. He was born in post partition Punjab

. He did his engineering in Punjab engineering college in chandigarh.

. Where he got introduced to theatre 🎭 Cartoons and sattrism

. He also learnt about street comedy there also

HIS JOURNEY IN COMEDY 👑

. He produced various shows like

-Full tension

-Flop show

- Ulta palta

. He released 10 episodes of the flop show on Doordarshan

.Which was a lot ahead of that time

. He raises issues and makes comedy scenes from daily events of common man

. It was a direct challenge to the government about his false deeds .

USAGE OF DIFFERENT PARTY NAME WHICH IS USED AS SATIRE 🧑‍💼🧑‍💼

.He used different names of parties like

- hawla party

- recession party

- suitcase party

HIS WAY OF PROTESTING 🪧

-He built a corruption temple

- He buried dead telephones

- He criticizes the government beruecats in street comedy

HIS ROLE AND INFLUENCE ON PEOPLE ♾️

. He criticized the government by using satire which encourages people to ask questions .

. It has a psychological impact on people who treated the government as a god .

HIS COURAGE TO UNCOVER EVIL DEEDS OF PUNJAB POLICE 🚨 🚓

.He built the whole movie mahaul theek ha to criticize

- False killing

- Corruption

- Fake encounters

- Harassment of people

. This movie also talked about the ias bajaj case which put kps in the court room

HIS DEAD 🪾

. On 25 October 2012 he died in a car crash while shooting and promoting his son's movie .

. Gems left this world and inspired others also

Even after so many years his legacy is relevant today also .

His wife also helped him a lot even seen in his shows (Savita Bhatti )

Pash poem sab toh khatarnak a question to society and system?

Ideas welcome.

Do you guys read such interpretations or Guru Baani?

I'd love to know more such books to read! would love recommendations

This is Santwaani by Acharya Prashant btw^

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SOBHA SINGH WAS NOT SIMPLY PAINTER . HE BECAME ONE OF GREATEST VISUAL STORY TELLER OF PUNJAB AND SIKH CIVILIZATION IN 20 CENTURY. THROUGH HIS PAINTINGS MILLIONS PEOPLE LEARNED HOW SIKH GURU, PUNJABI FOLKLORE LOOK LIKE

BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE 🧬 👶

Sobha singh was born on 29 november 1901 in district gurdaspur shri hargobindpur named a small town or village before partition (now in east Punjab) His father served in the colonial military and had an artistic interest.Due to his guidance he is disciplined have interest in art.

Due to his environment he learnt about sikh tradition and rural punjab values . From childhood he showed interest in sketching faces , observing people ,drawing village scenes , and studying expression. During that time punjab was under colonial rule and the government had control on art , media and other things . They did not want traditional art to come up. Photography and printing replaced the miniature painting 🎨🖌️ tradition .He went to the industrial school in Amritsar where he learned to draw the design of machines . After this he went to the military where he learned about discipline , patience order and accuracy. He works with technical drafts , sign work , illustration and practical design in the military 🪖.

MOVING TO LAHORE AFTER SERVING IN MILITARY 🪖🎖️

After the job of the military he moved to lahore . Lahore is the cultural hub of arts , theatre journalism poetry and history . He set up his circle with the artist and historian there. He started working in point commission study painting, commercial art illustration eventually due to his work he settled in Lahore .

PARTITION OF PUNJAB ⛓️‍💥💔

Partition of punjab has a great impact on him . Like other people he lost his property, a friend circle which he built in Lahore . Partition trauma also impacted him a lot . Due to this he went to a silent and calm place in the mountain which was not other than andretta which was built by nora richard as a cultural hub .

SETTLING IN ANDRETTA ⛰️ 🏕️🏞️

After Settling in andretta he set up his studio there . Himachal beauty and culture influenced him a lot . He started painting there and eventually became one of the greatest Punjabi painters .

HIS TECHNIQUE AND WORKING 🖌️🖼️

He has mastery in

.oil painting

.portrait realism

.Skin texture

.Eyes expression

M.S RANDHAWA ROLE IN HIS LIFE 👨‍💼

M.S Randhawa supported sobha singh a lot and helped to promote his painting . As he also wanted to conserve culture which was gone in the hands of Pakistan especially lahore .

ABOUT HIS PAINTING 🎨 🖌️

He worked on various painting of sikh gurus . Punjabi folklores like heer ranjha sohni mahiwal etc . He also painted bhagat singh painting which inspired millions of people of India .

His dead 🪾

Sobha singh died on 21 August 1986 . Through his painting we can understand punjabi history and visualise sikh gurus . He died but not his works . Now his studio is situated in Himachal Pradesh andretta where the pilgrim came to see his paintings . Before his death many students came to him to understand the depth of painting.

About few painting above in images

1. Bhagwan Shri Ram Chandra ji

2. Persian folklore (has to be confirmed)

3.Heer ranjha

4. Shri Guru Teg Bahadur singh ji

5. Shri Guru Hargobind singh ji

6.Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji

7. Maharaja Ranjit Singh

8. Kangri women painting

9 . Guru Nanak Dev Ji

10. Guru Nanak Dev Ji

11. M.S Randhawa and Sobha singh together is a photo sorry .

12. Photo -sobha singh

13. Shaheed S.Bhagat Singh

14. Sohni mahiwal

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S Mohinder Singh Randhawa

. Was one of most influential administrators of punjab and cultural figures in post partition punjab .

. Botanist by profession and core founder of today punjab that we see.

His influence on horticultural and research at botany

1. Rose research in Chandigarh. The famous zakir Hussain rose garden reflects his horticultural vision .

2. Wrote extensively about Indian flora and garden tradition.

3. Research on Himalayan flora .

4. Research on indigenous plants and indian gardening tradition he documented how mughual kings used flowers in culturally and spiritually . These works influenced in greeny of chandigarh.

As administrator of East punjab

1. Refugee rehabilitation -one of his biggest responsibility was helping millions of refugees arriving from West punjab

This involves arranging temporary camp , food, distribution, sanitation and medical assistance

2. Land distribution and resettlement - played role in evaluating land record resettlement of displaced farming families and reconstructing of rural economies

3. Rebuilding agriculture - irrigation network seed supply.Mr Randhawa encouraged scientific method of farming.

His work on chandigarh

1.Planning and administration connected with chandigarh.

2.Urban reconstruction.

3.Creation of a modern post partition identity of punjab.

He supported public gardens , sculpture architure landscape design and artistic urban planning.

His work on art and culture

1. Preservation of punjabi culture - cultural heritage by finding lost historic centre , architecture artworks and cultural institutions to Pakistan especially lahore so he works closely on arts and culture . He therefore devoted his line of punjabi folklore, craft , oral traditions, miniature painting, architecture.

2. His research on pahari and kangra miniature painting.

Post he held

Senior administrator in east Punjab

Chief commissioner of chandigarh

He has also role in seting up pau ludhiana also . He helped sobha singh painter also to do painting to engage culture in punjab

1. It is absolutely a read for our times, explains well how Hindi and its many, many speakers get manufactured over time to suit state narratives.

2. That aside it is a true scholarly exploration of India and its identity as a nation amongst such linguistic variety.

3. I underlined quite a lot.

4. It is a small book (180 pages) but very vast, uses language as the basis and touches everything from indian historiography, colonisation and decolonisation, hindi imposition, artificial intelligence, the erosion of languages, the erosion of natural language itself in the age of AI and the digit, and ofcourse linguistics (I might be missing a few).

5. It will be an easy read if you've read history, and a very easy read if you've read linguistics as well. For the new reader, the linguistic terms can make the text feel alien to digest as the author explains the grammars with specific terminology (sphota, dhvani, anukarana, aporia, bhava, svabhava etc.) They are well explained though, so while the other book feels easy - this is your place to learn bits about linguistics.

6. This & Tony Joseph's Early Indians are complementary reads. I would recommend both, especially in this hindi hindu hindustan type of India. 🫪

NORA RICHARD (GRANDMOTHER OF PUNJABI THEATRE 🎭)

Birth and early life 🧬

1. Was born Norah Mary hutman

2. Born on 29 October 1876 in Mullaghglass , county armagh ireland

3.Early life was influenced due to irish cultural nationalism , revial of gaelic culture

4.People later compared her with lady gregory

5.She studied from Oxford belgium sydney and many European institutions. She did not do any ba and ma instead due to her background during that time women especially her type of social background do artistic and literary education often happened through private study , cultural society, theatre group.

6. Any honorable doctorate was given to her also by punjabi university patiala also later in her life .

Before coming to India

1. Before going to India she practiced theatre as stage name Norah boyle

2.She is already trained theatre before coming to India

3. She did not arrive as a ruler ,a missionary and imperial beruecats but as a artist

Marriage and death of husband

1. She married Philip Ernest Richards which was English professor in dayal college lahore

2. As a lahore was the intellectual capital of punjab , centre for literature, journalism and reveloution.

3. In Lahore she discovered punjabi folklore, culture , theatre and traditions.

4. She wanted students to write theatre play in punjab.

5. Earlier punjabi theatre was done on English play , parsi melodrama and superficial entertainment

6. Due to her encouragement students started writing theatre play in punjabi which was first done in modern way by her student I.S nanda in 1913-1914 on dulhan play under her guidance

7. Due to her efforts dramatist like balwant gargi and Harcharan singh the tradition further as they were her students.

8. Norah believes theatre should educate society ,reform injustice, uplift villages , awaken moral consciousness in people .

9. One of his students play tell about child marriage this play name is suhaag .

10. She was highly influenced by abbey theatre which was started by lady gregory as a co -founder

11. After death of her husband she settled london temporary but love for punjab pull her back to punjab .

Settling in andretta

1. Andretta was remote forested , quite artistically untouched area due to her love for mountain, village simplicity, ecological life and folk culture she chooses to settle there .

2. She purchased 15 acre land and named it Woodland estate where she built a mud house instead of concrete inspired from destruction of kangra due to earthquake and also inspiring from kangri culture and named it chameli niwas

3 . Her daily routine is described by b.c sangal . He described her digging soil herself , gardening, wearing khadi and typing late at night by kerosene lamp .

4. She organised week long theatre festival at andretta . She thinks or believed culture belongs to local people.

5 . Prithviraj kapoor (famous actor , father of raj kapoor )often visit her in Andretta

6. Due to her work in creating andretta artistic ecosystem sobha singh settled near andretta .

7. She strongly supported - women dignity, women performers , female education which is seen in her and her students theatre play.

Last time and death

Here final year were difficult. She worried deeply about preservation of manuscript, future of woodland estate and survival of andretta artistic spirit . Eventually she entrusted much of her legacy to punjab University.

In 1970 Punjab University Patiala given her honourary doctorate due to her contribution.

She died in 3 march 1971 in andretta and given us a message after death which is written in her gravestone says

"Rest Weary Heart — Thy Work Is Done.”

Which means your heart can now rest because your life mission is complete ✅.

From her life we can understand

Culture has no boundaries.

His work was put on fire by his own family. His family doesn't like him . Lost the ones who he loves the most but one thing which remains with him throughout is alcohol which takes away him from this fatal world

...The word jugni comes from jugnu, a firefly. A small, self-illuminating thing that travels through darkness. The metaphor is so obvious it embarrasses itself: she carries her own light. But what people forget about fireflies is that the light is not free. Every flash is a metabolic event, a tiny expenditure of the body’s resources. The firefly loses a little of itself with every flicker. And nobody thinks about this when they are praising the fireflies.

Jugni also means an ornament. A necklace. A necklace that does not choose who wears it. The necklace also does not decide when it comes off.

Jugni is the light and she is the decoration and she is not, in either version, the one who gets to rest.

In Punjabi folk music, Jugni is a traveler. She arrives in a city and she looks around and she comments on what she finds. She is funny. She is incisive. She notices everything.

Jugni jaa varhi Kalkatte — Jugni arrived in Kolkata. And then she tells you exactly what is wrong with Kolkata, with precision and wit, and there is a refrain, and you laugh, and then something catches in your throat because buried inside the joke was the truth. The children are hungry. The women are helpless. The lips are sewn but the eyes keep weeping.

She delivers tragedy as comedy. This is her gift and it is also her sentence.

She is the one who makes you laugh about the thing you cannot cry about. She holds the community’s grief in the shape of a punchline so that the community can process it without collapsing. She does this at every stop on her route. She arrives, she observes, she makes the unbearable bearable, and then she leaves. She is always leaving. That is the structure of the Jugni verse.

She arrives, she speaks, she goes.

Where does she go? No verse has ever addressed this...

Full Essay: https://open.substack.com/pub/fateyjoote/p/jugni?r=202jha&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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