One of the two personalities selected for Padma Shri honor from Punjab, Pran Sabharwal (93), is a Patiala-based veteran theatre actor credited for over 5,000 performances in seven decades.
Anne Murphy
IT is almost a year now since Dalip Kaur Tiwana left us. This is a personal tragedy for all who knew her, her friends and family with whom she shared her life. It is a measure of her achievement, and her deep impact, that this loss is so felt even by those of us who knew her less, or even not at all.
For, she was known to us through her words, through the books that she wrote and the stories she composed, the lives she wove into words and pages, and the voices and worlds she captured and described. And through the ideas that she presented before us, and forced us to consider.