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About Sohan Singh Seetal
- Sohan Singh Seetal (1909-1998) was a Punjabi author, poet and lyricist.Seetal, Sohan Singh entered the field of literary creation after 1947.
- He has written over a score novel most of which are romantic and sentimental.
- Among these Dive di Lo (The Flame of the Earthen Lamp), Mul da Mas (Flesh at a Price) and Badia (Revenge) deal with the eternal problem of the woman about which most Indian writers and artistes cannot help being sentimental.
- Sohan Singh Seetal has in due course travelled from sentimentality, which often becomes macabre, to competent realism, although here also the projection of problems and their solution are not without a sentimental tinge. On the whole, Seetal has described in his novels the countryside of Central Punjab and the life of its people as a kind of parallel to Nanak Singh who deals with urban life in the same tract of land.
- Both are reformist and sentimental to start with and then grow into realists in their later work but while Nanak Singh tends towards a kind of Gandhian Socialism, Seetal's concern with the peasant's life takes a populist form.
- His novel Jug Badal Gya won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1974.
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