Hazara singh ramta biography
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Punjab’s Inimitable Troubadour:
Hazara Singh Ramta
August 1, 1926 - September 6, 2017T.
SHER SINGH
HAZARA SINGH RAMTA
August 1, 1926 - September 6, 2017
Growing up in Patna in the State of Bihar -- a thousand miles from the land of my ancestors, my parents being refugees from the carnage of The Partition -- had interesting aspects to it.
Hazara singh ramta biography
To a young boy who only got to visit Punjab periodically and only for short periods, everything about Punjab was mythic and idealistic. Music, dance, legends and folktales, saakhis and history, even the new Punjabi capital of Chandigarh and Punjab’s record-breaking Bhakra-Nangal Hydro-electric Dam, everything acquired a larger-than-life aura.
Punjabi music and dance in particular were a constant, nagging source of hunger and frustration: I could never get enough of them.
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