Poetry Event at Department of English, Punjab University

Poetry Event at Department of English, Punjab University

 National Tele24 News

Chandigarh

Department of English and Cultural Studies collaborated with Rhythms of Rhyme, a Chandigarh based poetry collective, to organize a poetry event featuring Harmanjeet Singh, winner of the SahityaAkademi's YuvaPuraskar Award and the 'HT Youth Icon Under 30'. The event also included performances by two other poets from the city and nearby places and two musicians, one of them was the upcoming composer of the Punjabi music industry, Manpreet Singh. The other poets apart from Harmanjeet were Ekam, ParamveerJhim,  NaviSra, Amrit Pal Singh, Jaspreet Singh, Talwinder Singh Somal. The event was conducted at the Mulk Raj Anand Auditorium and gathered an audience of 200 including teachers, students, and poetry lovers. This is the first time, the young sensation in Punjabi Poetry, Harman  graced a private event. The event not only included poetry performance but also a thought-provoking discussion on poetry which was convened by KaranjeetKomal, who is himself a poet and an associate of both Harman and Manpreet, the duo whose lyrics and music coupling has been gaining a lot of attention and popularity. Both the artists seemed very optimistic with the present progressive forms of Punjabi literature as well as music industry despite some quarters which are against the cultural ethos of Punjab. Rhythms of Rhyme is a poetry collective founded in 2015 by Tajinder Singh and NosheenKapoor. The group in their endeavor to popularize poetry and revive the literary, the authentic, and the artistic in poetry culture, which is fast becoming a victim of excessive digitization and mediocre creativity, conducts poetry events and offers a platform to both published and unpublished poets. The chairperson of the Dept. of English and Cultural Studies, Prof. Deepti Gupta and deputy chairperson, Prof. Akshay Kumar, along with other teachers extended their full support and cooperation.