Amarjit Chandan
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Amarjit Chandan was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1946. After graduating from Panjab University in India, he joined the Maoist Naxalite movement and subsequently spent two years in prison in solitary confinement. Later he worked for various Punjabi literary and political magazines before migrating to England in 1980. He has published four collections of poetry and two collections of essarys in Punjabi. He has also edited many anthologies of world poetry and fiction and translated work by writers including Brecht and Neruda into Punjabi.
Amarjit Chandan's poem for National Poetry Day 2001 is The Journey.
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