 Delegates during the seminar on Bhagat Singh take a round of the exhibition on ‘Gadari Babe’ organised by Dr Malwinder Singh Waraich.
The three-day ICHR International seminar on ‘Bhagat Singh and his Times’ concluded at ICSSR Complex, Panjab University, here today. On the third day of the multi-disciplinary seminar, four presentations on the impact and image of the martyr in vernacular newspapers, Hindi literature, Bengali writings, Punjabi poetry, plays, and other genres were made.
Prof Harish Sharma from Amritsar analysed vernacular papers published from Amritsar during the period of Bhagat Singh’s trial, which turned out to be ‘the most productive period of his career’. These newspapers became ‘the major instruments for the spread of the revolutionary ideology, and its logic’.
Prof Himadri Banerjee from Kolkata brought out the changing perceptions of the Bengalis about the life and martyrdom of Bhagat Singh through an analysis of printed Bengali writings like the newspapers reports, memoirs and biographies by the admirers, mentors, and his bitter critics.
Prof Tejwant S. Gill from Chandigarh analysed the literary discourse around Bhagat Singh with reference to five volumes of poems, as many plays, two novels and six prose writings in Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi. Dr Prem Singh from Delhi studied the image of the late hero in Hindi novel and brought it out as complex, multi-layered and different in different texts. They reflect Bhagat Singh the thinker, the Marxist-Leninist, the socialist, the atheist and, above all, the revolutionary martyr.
Prof J.S. Grewal from Chandigarh presented the last paper and analysed Bhagat Singh’s two writings on the Namdhari movement from the historic-graphical point of view. Prof G.S. Gosal chaired the valedictory session and the vote of thanks was proposed by Prof Indu Banga, the seminar coordinator.
PAPER PRESENTED: Dr Harnam Singh Shan, professor Emeritus, Panjab University, is back from Europe after attending the ‘38th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (INCANAS) 2007’ held at Ankara (Turkey). Dr Shan presented his paper on ‘Peace at Home, Peace in the World, in the context of the Sikh Thought and Tradition as expressed and preserved in the sacred Sikh Scriptures.
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