![]() Shiv’s poetry is characterised by longing and desolation, a melancholy that also surrounded Sahir Ludhianvi. Shiv has often been termed the Keats of Punjabi poetry.He is a somewhat incongrous personality- a Punjabi poet of Brahmin origins who reached his pinnacle when Punjabi language was becoming the bone of contention in Punjab with Punjabi increasingly identified as a language of the Sikhs in the state and the Hindus called upon by the Jana Sangh, the ancestor of today’s BJP, to disown Punjabi language. In the Bohemian aspects of his personality, he brings to mind the urdu poet Majaz who too died young. It would not be incorrect to say that there has been no comparable romantic poet in Punjabi after him. The Bohemian Punjabi poet died at the age of 36 on this day 1973. Today is Shiv Kumar Batalvi‘s 33rd death anniversary.
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