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Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari (1895–1977) was a Punjabi novelist and short story writer with more than fifty books to his credit. He is also considered the father of modern Punjabi prose and received Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, New Delhi in 1971.〔http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/fello.htm#awa02〕 Armed with an engineering degree from the ''Thomson Engineering College'', now the IIT Roorkee, he also studied Civil Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.〔http://indiatoday.intoday.in/index.php?issueid=55&id=4897&option=com_content&task=view§ionid=20&secid=33〕 ==Preet Nagar== Gurbakhsh Singh established ''Preet Nagar'' township that was equidistant between Amritsar and Lahore. Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari, through his personal charisma, brought people like Balraj Sahni, Nanak Singh, celebrity artist (Singh (painter) ) and Diwan Singh, father of Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Arora of Bangladesh war fame, apart from associating Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sahir Ludhianvi, Upendra Nath Ashq and Kartar Singh Duggal,playwright Balwant Gargi, poets Mohan Singh and Amrita Pritam: the best talent of the time — with Preet Nagar. The great martyr Diwan Singh Kalepani,the great intellectual Principal Teja Singh,principal Jodh Singh were closely associated. Gandhiji was to visit here and Nehru did. Tagore was aware of it. Mulkh Raj Anand, a renowned writer in English, said that Tagore's legacy was carried forward by four in India, and counts Gurbakhsh Singh as one of these. He brought great solace and a sense of adventure to the just about upcoming middle class and would-be professionals, through his writings in the journal he founded in 1933,'This journal, PREETLARI or LINKED(THROUGH)LOVE, preceded the setting up of the township by 5 years. The township was in line with the international trend for Intended Communities, it had among other efforts, a community kitchen, an activity based school called ActivitySchool, a park, physical, artistic, political, economic activity, a team of peace corps, gatherings of like minds, theatrical activity, picnics, etc. Although Preet Nagar suffered a lot at the time of India's partition (it is situated merely a few kilometers from the border that divides India and Pakistan)and most of its inhabitants migrated to Delhi and other cities during those turbulent days, Gurbaksh Singh and his family returned to live there with a few other families. In the mid 90's, two decades after Gurbaksh Singh's death, a Trust named 'Gurbaksh Singh Nanak Singh Foundation' was set up to restart cultural activities in Preet Nagar. A building was erected to host a library, an indoor conference hall and an amphitheater. Currently, under the chairperson-ship of the eldest daughter of the writer, Uma Gurbaksh Singh, plays are staged every month in the amphitheater to entertain and educate the local people. This tradition has been going on for the last ten years and Punjabi plays from all over the state as well as neighboring Pakistan have been performed there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gurbaksh Singh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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