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Jagjit Singh Anand strode the twin political and literary careers throughout his life. A journalist by profession he was a prolific writer and translator and has more than 30 publications to his credit. He was the founder and executive member of
Kendriya Punjabi Lekhak Sabha since its establishment
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and rose to its highest ranks in the post independence years . Here he also came in contact with Navtej Singh, then a young son of established
Punjabi writer Gurbakhsh Singh Preet Lari, and later an important Punjabi short story writer on his own. Together they translated Wanda Vasiliuska's novel
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Born in 1921 at Taran Taaran to Mehtab Singh and
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Congress, and the terrorists during the Punjab Crisis in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Anand countered death threats defiantly: "I will not be cowed down by death threats and
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attempts on my life by the extremists and I will uphold the freedom of the press at all costs."
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Indian Writer on the West Berlin
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