Jasuja, Gurcharan Singh made his name as a playwright when his play entitled Gaumukha Shermukha won in a competition organised by All India Radio since then he has contributed eleven full-length plays notable among which are Makri da Jal (the Cobweb), 1957; Kandhan Ret Dian (Walls of Sand), 1963;

MAIA, BHAI, son of Bhai Khanu who, according to Bhai Gurdas, Varan, XI. 15, received instruction at the hands of Guru Angad.

Narula, Surinder Singh is a technique-conscious novelist, whose Peo putar (Father and the son, 1946) gave a fresh thematic dimension to the Punjabi novel. His literary corpus includes 12 novels, 7 collections of short stories, some collection of poems and few books of literary critcism, both in Punjabi and

PRATAP SINGH, GIANI (1904-1984). preacher, journalist and author, was the son of Bhai Makkhan Singh and Mat Mathura Devi of the village of Nara in Rawalpindi district of the Punjab (now in Pakistan). Born on 3 January 1904, he learnt Gurmukhi and scripture reading at home and passed his

SUDDHU, BHAI, was a devoted Sikh of the time of Guru Arjan. He lived in Lahore. Guru Aijan, along with five of his Sikhs, stayed in his house for a few days before he was summoned under imperial warrant and martyred. Bhai Suddhu was the father of Bhai Buddhu,

JETHA SINGH was a Sikh of Guru Gobind Singh`s time. He was a merchant by profession and lived at Ahmadnagar. He was host, in Ahmadnagar, to Bhai Daya Singh, one of the Parij Piare, who travelled in 1706 to the South with Guru Gobind Singh`s letter, Zafamdmah, to be