Remembering Pash
Letter to the Editor
Dear Sir,
Avtar Singh Sandhu, also known as Pash, was born on September 9, 1950, in the village of Talwandi Salem in Jalandhar, Punjab. Pash’s poetry has always had political overtones. Pash was opposed to religious fanaticism and harshly criticised the state’s authoritarian nature.
On March 25, 1988, he was assassinated in New Delhi by Khalistani militants. Decades after his death Pash’s ideas still reverberate to the contemporary socio-political milieu. With the country’s communal tensions on the rise, it’s a good time to remember Pash’s revolutionary spirit.
Vijay Kumar H K, Raichur, Karnataka
KV News
