Sargam Society & Aryans Group to organise Shiv Batalvi Night on 6th May
To pay a tribute to Shiv Kumar Batalvi on his 50th Death Anniversary, Sargam Society of Indian Music & Arts (Regd), Mohali & Aryans Group of Colleges, Rajpura, Near Chandigarh are going to organize a Musical Program from on 6th May, 2023, Saturday to be held in Randhawa Auditorium, Sec 16, Chandigarh from 06:00 PM onwards. In this event, RD Kailey, a trained singer & his team of Singers will pay the musical tribute to legendary Batalvi ji, said President of the Society & Chairman, Aryans Group, Dr. Anshu Kataria.
The event would be graced by S. Gulzar Sandhu, a close associate of Shiv Kumar Batalvi as Chief Guest while Rita Juneja, DGM, Head, PNB, Mohali; Deepak Manmohan, Former Director, World Punjabi Centre; MP Gupta, Music Connoisseur would be Guests of Honour. Sh. Ashwani Garg, Chairman, SVIET, Banur would preside over.
Kailey mentioned that each year on his birth and death anniversary, we organise a musical performance, but this year we wanted to try something unique & decided to pay a 50-song tribute as a mark of respect and love for his poetry. He will be uploading one song every day for the next 50 days on my YouTube channel. He has already started uploading daily a song & has uploaded 19 songs so far.
It is to be mentioned that Shiv Kumar Batalvi was an Indian poet, writer and playwright of the Punjabi language. He was also known as Keats of Punjab & most known for his romantic poetry, noted for its heightened passion, pathos, separation and lover’s agony, due to that he was also called Virha Da Sultan.
