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2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The banned poem ’Khooni Vaisakhi’ on Jallianwala massacre will now be published in English. It was authored by whom?
A
Balwant Gargi
B
Waris Shah
C
Nanak Singh
D
Mohan Singh
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Khooni Vaisakhi: A Poem From The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1919 features an English translation by Nanak Singh’s grandson, His Excellency Navdeep Suri, India’s Ambassador to the UAE, alongside the corresponding Punjabi verse.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rabindranath Tagore received the news of the massacre by 22 May 1919. He tried to arrange a protest meeting in Calcutta and finally decided to renounce his British knighthood as “a symbolic act of protest".

Detailed explanation-3: -The poem ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’, written by Punjabi writer Nanak Singh on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, was banned by the British after its publication in 1920. The poem was a scathing critique of the British Raj. Jallianwala Bagh.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April 1919. General Dyer blocked the only entrance to Jallianwala Bagh and ordered his troops to open fire on the unarmed civilians.

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