Harbans Bhalla

Harbans Bhalla (7 May 1930 – 5 April 1993) was the author of Peelay Pattar, a long Urdu epic poem, a creation realized after 14 years of writing. He was a writer, poet, philosopher, and a scholar, who wrote in the Persian, Shahmukhi and Urdu languages.

Biography Harbans Bhalla was born in Pasrur, now in the Sialkot District of Pakistan. To his mother's pride, he wrote his first story in the 7th standard; It was titled Meri Mehbooba. Rather than having been inspired by other writers, Bhalla's works came organically from his feelings. Bhalla had a unique writing style: for a given topic he wrote 20 – 1,000 verses and each started with the same word. During his lifetime he was considered a "lesser known figure in the literary circles of Gujarat," India. After suffering from cancer,

Published works Some of his published works include: Peelay Pattar (Punjabi) Rekha (Gujarati) Ik Lehar Du Pathar Jad Phul Khidey (Punjabi) Zhanjar Dharti Di (Punjabi) Kani Kani Chandani (Punjabi) Piase Rishtey (Punjabi) Nike Nike Ghungru (Punjabi) Nari Ba Roop (Sindhi) Pyarji Rah Anagee (Sindhi) Khoon Patthar Pyar ( Sindhi) Akinchan Sambandho, a novel With N. A. Vora

Poetic Journey Harbans Bhalla is famous for his literary poetic work peele pattarwhich has almost 70,000 verses or rhythmic couplets. He took fourteen years to complete. Peelay Pattar is originally written in Shahmukhi language which is a variant of the Perso-Arabic script used to write the Punjabi language. It took him 14 years to complete the work and he hoped that it would make the Limca Book of Records.The first of ten volumes of the work will be released at the Punjabi University on 7 May 2013, which is the 83rd anniversary of his birth. 10 volumes of the magnum opus, “Peelay Pattar” was released at the 6th World Punjabi Conference by Punjab Vidhan Sabha speaker, Rana KP Singh.