Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 13: Tributes were paid today to world famous Dogri poet Padam Dev Singh ‘Nirdosh’, who has great contribution for making the Dogri language recognized in whole world. He is the poet who has written symbolic lines for Chenab river– a symbol of love.
On his birth anniversary, a program was organized today at ‘Nirdosh’ Chowk in Akhnoor in which SDPO Varun Jandial and Station House Officer Hilal Azhar along with civil society members and media persons paid floral tributes to the great soul.
Padam Dev Singh Nirdosh, who wrote a classical song ‘Balle Balle Bag Ha Chinab Deya Paniyan, Aaj Ghar Chutti Aunaa Saade Dil Janiaan’, was born on 13 April 1940 in Kaleeth. Nirdosh lived with that section of the society who has been marginalized. The lines of one of his works are “Tere Raja Ch Ner Peda Krishna Murari, Zamindar Ai Pukkha Marda Kukad Kha Patwari Kukad Kha Patwari Oh Bhi Kudki Kudki, Salam Bottle Piya Firda Budki Budki”.
Nirdosh died on September 7, 1994. He is only Dogri poet on whose name a ‘chowk’ is established. The fountain chowk of Akhnoor was renamed as Nirdosh Chowk and statue of Nirdosh was also established there.
Others who paid floral tributes to the great poet were Rabia Khajuria, Vikrant Bral, Vishal Sharma, Sunny Sharma, Adarsh Bakshi, Ashwani Kumar, Atul Sudan, Avinash Bassan, Rakesh Kumar, Shiv Beragi, Vishal Gadgotra, Rajan Beragi, Shamsher Singh, Ashwin Bhardwaj, Anil Sharma, Vishal Sapolia, Raghuvir Singh, Raman Gupta, Ritesh Gupta, Sunny Sharma, Rahul Langer, etc.
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