By Varinder Walia
Date:05-10-06
Source: The Tribune
A multifarious personality, Giani Kesar Singh was a voracious reader, a great freedom fighter and a prolific writer who
authored about 25 historical novels in Punjabi, especially on the Ghadar Movement.
He served as a Civil Administrator of the Indian National Army (from 1943 to 1945), secretary, Shiromani Akali Dal (1948 to 1957) and was the guide of Golden Temple for two years.
After authoring ‘Jangi Kaidi’ (Prisoners of War), he was hailed as Leo Tolstoy, of Punjabi literature. He breathed his last in Canada on September 21 at the age of 95.
Bhai Vir Singh wrote the first Punjabi novel ‘Sundri’ in 1899. This book was written at the time when Sikhs were at a moral low after the fall of their empire and the anexation of the Punjab by the British.
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