Sham-E-Jigar honours poet Jigar Jalandhri

Express News Service

Patiala, January 24: The Rotary Club Patiala, the National Theatre and Arts Society (NTAS) and Kalakriti Patiala, jointly organised a ’ sham-e-jigar’, an evening of music and poetry. The evening was dedicated to poetry and philosophy based on the works of the renowned Urdu poet Janab Jigar Jalandhari on his 70th birth anniversary.

Rotary president S.C.Sharma, welcoming the guest of honour Dr Naresh Raj, director health of Punjab State Electricity Board, said the programme was organised to pray forthe well-being of Jigar Jalandhari, who went missing in June 2003.

He highlighted the art and philosophy of Jigar and recited a few couplets of the poet.

Earlier during the session, NTAS director Pran Sabharwal in his key note address dwelt upon various facets of Jigar’s life and quoted high comments of stalwart regarding Jigar’s works. Parminder Pal Kaur, director of Kalakriti, said Jigar had made rich contributions to Urdu poetry, while the PRTC chairman Ved Parkash Gupta and Jagjit Singh Dardi in their messages described him as a poet of love.

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Here is link to the news story about Jigar's disappearance.
http://www.onlypunjab.com/latest/fullstory-newsID-720.html