Release of Santokh Bhullar's book on Saroop Singh's painting at Lyallpur Khalsa College

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Lyallpur Khalsa College Jalandhar and Sahitya Kala Kendra organized a public presentation ceremony of the unique and very important book "Chitran Da Sahitya Sumail" written by versatile writer Santokh Bhullar. The book is about the cultural history of the portraits of Punjabi literary figures as portrayed by internationally renowned Punjabi painter Sardar Saroop Singh. The event was held at the college auditorium. In this book, one hundred and fifteen Punjabi writers related to Sufi, Gurmat, Qisa and modern literary trends along with portraits prepared by Saroop Singh of personalities belonging to five other cultures and informative written by Santokh Bhullar about the life and contribution of those personalities are included. Darshan Khatkar, the leading poet and thinker of the Punjabi Jujhar Vidrohi poetry movement, attended the event as the chief guest and along with him, prominent writer Bachint Kaur, Shiromani journalist and writer Kuldeep Singh Bedi, Eng. Seetal Singh S

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