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Gursharan Singh has been duly
\nrewarded for his efforts in terms
\nof immense love, affection and
\nregard that he received over the
\nyears from the people of Punjab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Public Archive of Revolutionary Culture, Punjab, is a platform dedicated to deepening our understanding of the role of culture for social transformation. This is a collective effort and an open platform for discussion and dialogue. Conceived as a living archive eventually, it\u2019s a work in progressive currently, to bring revolutionary cultural material from Punjab under this platform. The beginning is made by bringing Gursharan Singh\u2019s work together in recognition of his immense contribution to building and shaping revolutionary cultural movement in Punjab. This includes his published and unpublished close to 200 scripts of long and short plays, documentaries, music, copies of the magazines Sardal and Samta that he edited or co-edited, photos, letters, diaries, TV plays, writings of scholars on his theatre and a few recordings of the drama performances. The material represents the expressions of deep seated belief that the lives of ordinary working people are not what they ought to be, and a passionate striving for change. Where art and culture had become a monopoly of the few, to the exclusion of working women and men from the benefits of culture, the revolutionary theatre of Gursharan Singh came to the working<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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people as a tool to understand their oppression and a weapon to fight it with. The themes he chose appealed to the intellect of the working people and the performance appealed to their emotions. In these challenging times, he said, the divide is clear, there is no place for middle-of- the-road art. It is only and only committed art where message emerges with extraordinary force to destroy the decadent old and recreate the revolutionary new.<\/p>\n

This archive is a small effort with no claims to bring all revolutionary cultural material under one platform in one go. We hope that we will grow through the collective efforts of all those who believe in archiving, learning from history and seriously debating the role of revolutionary culture for social change. We would like this open access platform to be available to the students and others to understand, write and develop radical culture in Punjab. The aim is to see these records used, developed and reconstructed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the moment the collection is compiled mostly of records readily available with the family but we hope to receive more materials which will pave way for intellectual development, providing new views on culture and ideology and whole new ways of thinking and how we approach the role of radical culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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