Dareechah-e-Nigaarish

Professor Mohan Singh (1905 - 1978)

پروفیسر موہن سنگھ نوُں جدید پنجابی شاعری دے بانیاں وِچ سمجھےآ جاندا اے۔ اوہناں لھور وچ پنجابی رسالے پنج دریا دی نینہہ رکھّی اتے لھور وچ پنجابی پبلشنگ کمپنی ہند پبلشرز وی قیَم کیتی۔

پروفیسر موہن سنگھ نوُں بھارت دا سبھ توں وڈا انعام ساہتیہ اکیڈیمی آوارڈ سنہ 1959 وچ  اوہناں  دی  پنجابی شاعری دی کتاب  وڈّا ویلا  لئی دِتّا گیا۔

پروفیسر موہن سنگھ دیاں پنجابی شاعری دیاں کتاباں دے سرناویں ایہہ نیں:

ساوے پتّر
کچّ سچّ
اوازاں
بوُہے
جَے میر
ننکایاں
کسمبھڑے
وڈا ویلا
جندرے
جندھڑاں

Born in 1905^[1] in a small town called  Mardan in the North Western Frontier province (now named Khyber Pakhtun Khawa) in British India (now in Pakistan), Mohan Singh spent the early years of his life at his ancestral village Dhamial: a suburb of the present day city of Rawalpindi and now a Pakistan Army base. His poem Kurree Pothohaar Dee is reminiscent of his romantic Punjabi poetry in his early days.^[2] 

In her autobiography, Raseedi Ticket, famous Punjabi poetess Amrita Preetam narrates that at one time Professor Mohan Singh had fallen in love with her but that she did not feel the same way about him.

Prof. Mohan Singh obtained a Master's degree in Persian and started his career as a Lecturer in Persian, Urdu and Punjabi at Khalsa College, Amritsar in 1933.^[3][4] He was well read in English, Persian and Urdu literature.^[5] At Amritsar, Teja Singh, Sant Singh Sekhon, Gurbachan Singh 'Talib' became his friends. In 1940, he joined as a Lecturer in the Sikh National College, Lahore, but after some time he left the job and started a firm, Hind Publishers to promote Modern Punjabi Literary works. In 1939, he started his famous literary Punjabi journal, the monthly Panj Darya. After Partition of British India into Pakistan and India in 1947 he shifted his business, Hind Publishers, to Amritsar and then to Jalandhar. Later, he became a Lecturer in Khalsa College, Patiala, India.^[6]

Professor Mohan Singh was awarded the highest literary award of India, the Sahitya Academy Award in 1959 for his poetry collection Wadda Vela. Later, he worked as Professor Emeritus at the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana from 1970 to 1974 and made this industrial town of Indian Punjab his home towards the end of his life. He died on 3rd May 1978 at Ludhiana, India.