Punjabi literature is suddenly poor by the loss of two irreplaceable assets as Dr Dalip Kaur Tiwana and Jaswant Singh Kanwal passed away, both in the same week.
Aged a glorious 101, Mr Kanwal, known as a "writer of people's movements" of Punjab, finally gave in to old age on February 1, despite his pen being active till the age of 100.
Dr Tiwana, a retired professor of Punjabi University, Patiala, was awarded one of India's highest civilian awards, Padma Shri, which she renounced in a gutsy move to protest against the mob lynching of a Muslim man by a radicalised Hindu mob in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh. She passed away at 84 in a hospital in Mohali, near Punjab's capital city, Chandigarh.
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