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Pash is one of the leading punjabi poets of the revolutionary punjabi poetry movement. This movement originated in the Indian sub continent in the late ninety sixties. These revolutionary punjabi poets were deeply influenced by the communist ideas of Karl Marx, Mao-Tse-Tung and Lenin. They believed that the present political system of India is not doing anything for the poor people of India. This political system is rather creating two kinds of Indias : India for the rich people and India for the poor people. Everyday this gap between the two kinds of India is increasing at a big speed. On the international level Pash is ranked with the poets of international fame, such as Pablo Neruda, Nazim
Hikmat and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Pash brought with him not only a new form of poetry he also brought with him a new kind of aesthetics in the punjabi poetry. Pash is also known as the leading Punjabi poet of the Naxalbary revolutionary movement. This was a communist revolutionary movement in India. This movement believed that the political system of India has not only become a very corrupt system; it is also working against the poor masses of india, labour and small farmers too. Such political system of India has divided the people in the name of castes. In his poetry, Pash uses symbols and language in such a way that his poems encourage its readers to rise against the corrupt system & to
fight against it for attaining freedom from all kinds of mental, physical, social, cultural and economic slavery. Pash also speaks very strongly about the freedom of women & for their equal rights in the society. He is also very outspoken against the religious fundamentalist terrorism. Pash was assasinated by the Khalistani Sikh Religious Fundamentalist terrorists in his village Talwandi Salem in 1988 when he was taking
shower in his own fields. His poetry has influenced hundrededs of new and emerging poets not only in Punjabi language but many other languages spoken in India and Pakistan. He is a legendary revolutionary punjabi poet. He is a giant among the giants of the Punjabi literature. You cannot talk about the history of the Punjabi poetry without
talking about the poetry of Pash and its significance. He was a true follower of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Kartar Singh Sarabha and great revolutionaries of the Gadhar Party who believed in overthrowing of the tyrant British raj with militant force. Pash had no sympathy for Mahatma Gandhi and his followers who were ruling India after the British had left and had given freedom to India.
Sukhinder Singh. (2016) PASH, Parakh, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1st Edition.
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