Aug 27 2024 to Aug 27 2024 7 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

105 years ago, on April 13, 1919, British troops, under the command of General Reginald Dyer, opened fire on a crowd of unarmed Indians who had assembled in Jallianwala Bagh in Punjab. Over a thousand people were killed and wounded during the massacre but 22-year old Nanak Singh miraculously survived and wrote Khooni Vaisakhi, a searing ballad with twenty-four poems providing a remarkable chronological account of events during the first fortnight of April 1919.

Former Ambassador Navdeep Suri, the grandson of the legendary Punjabi poet Nanak Singh, along with songwriter and musician Harpreet, will perform pieces from their musical album based on Nanak Singh’s Khooni Vaisakhi. 

Performers

Harpreet Songwriter & Musician

Harpreet is a versatile artiste, who sings original musical compositions in Hindi and several regional Indian languages and dialects such as Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Rajasthani and Haryanvi. He is best known for creating musical scores to epic works of humanist poets like Kabir and Bulleh Shah. Credited for taking celebrated poets to the masses, Harpreet has also composed popular hummable tunes to works of poets such as Pash (Avtar Singh Sandhu), Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Nirala (Suryakant Tripathi). Harpreet has performed at the Jaipur Literature Festival, Mahindra Kabira Festival, Jodhpur Riff, Rajasthan Kabir Yatra, Kerala Literature Festival, India by the Creek Dubai and the Sacred Amritsar Festival amongst others. Harpreet pays tribute to the poignant legacy of Nanak Singh’s Khooni Vaisakhi through a stirring musical album. Inspired by the tragic events of April 13th, 1919, Harpreet’s collection of tracks delves into the depths of history, echoing the resilience and sorrow of those affected by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Navdeep Suri Former Ambassador to Egypt & UAE & High Commissioner to Australia

Navdeep Suri is a former diplomat who has served as India’s Ambassador to Egypt & UAE and High Commissioner to Australia. His English translations of his grandfather Nanak Singh’s classic Punjabi novels have been published by Penguin as The Watchmaker and by Harper Collins as A Life Incomplete and Khooni Vaisakhi. His translations of the two novels on the Partition of 1947 have been recently published as Hymns in Blood and A Game of Fire.