It is a big agony that Batalavi left us at very early age a great loss for the Punjabi literature & Punjabi people not only in the Indian diaspora but worldwide. The great Shiv Kumar Batalavi the exponent punjabi poet. Ultimately, his permanent place among great Punjabi poets is affirmed by his ever-growing popularity. His poetry became a vast treasure of the fond memories of sights, sounds and symbols of the way of living and the scenery of rural Punjab, never so beautifully recorded in such breathtaking details except by the Great Master of Punjabi poetry, Waris Shah. He became the passionate voice of millions of others who were, and still are, going through the same crisis. For a large part of his versatile poetry, Shiv embraced the identity of a Punjabi folk storyteller and viewed the massive disruptions around him from the historical perspective of someone deeply immersed in Punjabi folklore. Maye ni maye mundher pe teree, bol raha hain kaga Jogan ho gayee teree dularee, man jogee sang laga (2) Chan mahiya chan mahiya mere dol sapaiya Chand kee tarah camak rahee thee us jogee kee kaya. Maye Ni Maye Munder Pe Teri Mother, O mother, on the top of Your house. Early in his adolescence, he experienced the sudden death of this centuries old way of living. Mother, O mother, on the top of Your house wall. He had lived his childhood in a traditional village social set up that offered the poise, equilibrium, stability, tranquillity and self-assurance of Punjabi culture. He articulated the tragedy of breakdown of Punjab’s traditional society under the onslaught of modernization.
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