Dalbir Singh Patarkar

ਦਲਬੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਪੱਤਰਕਾਰ

Punjabi journalist; author of Nerion Dithe Sant Bhindranwale

Punjabi journalist, author of Nerion Dithe Sant Bhindranwale, a first-person account of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

Dalbir Singh, known as Dalbir Singh Patarkar ("the journalist"), is a Punjabi journalist who wrote Nerion Dithe Sant Bhindranwale, which can be read as "Sant Bhindranwale seen from close". Booksellers describe it as an autobiography by a journalist who was closely associated with Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

The book

Language and size: Punjabi in Gurmukhi, a hardback of 480 pages.
Contents: a bookseller's listing says it includes a photograph of Sant Ji's body and the post-mortem report.
Subjects: the listings tie it to Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and to 1984.

What is not established

The listings give no publisher or year, and no source opened here gives his dates, his newspaper career, his politics, or his view of the Khalistan question. This profile should be extended once those can be sourced.

He is known for the book, which booksellers present as a first-person account by a journalist closely associated with Sant Ji.

Counsel

Bhai Ajmer Singh ਭਾਈ ਅਜਮੇਰ ਸਿੰਘ

Bhai Ajmer Singh disagrees with the argument made by the journalist Dalbir Singh, author of the book on Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale seen from close up, that a khalis manukh, a pure and whole human being, must first be created and only then will Khalistan have meaning. You cannot wait to qualify first, he says: the qualification is never certified and the waiting is indefinite. You must at least level some of the road. In any case, at every step you are being forced into entanglement, so the choice between preparing and acting is not really available, and history does not hold the door. He also corrects a use of Dalbir Singh's book on air: the letter said to be Gurcharan Singh Tohra's, he says, was by another Gurcharan Singh.
ਸਿੱਖਾਂ ਦੀ ਮਾਨਸਿਕ ਗੁਲਾਮੀ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਹੋਈ? (How did the Sikhs' mental slavery begin?), Unstoppable PunjabYouTube

Bhai Ajmer Singh calls Dalbir Singh the closest of all to Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. On the Khalistan declaration the two of them stood apart. Dalbir Singh was strongly against it, and Ajmer Singh, who had not been among those who got it done but was in favour of it, went with Jaspal Singh Sidhu to meet him after they learned of it. Ajmer Singh records Dalbir Singh's argument fairly: the state wanted to stamp us with exactly this, and we stamped ourselves. He grants that Dalbir Singh had the experience to think so, even as he holds that the stage could not be stopped and that, if you do not take that position even after the attack, then what.
ਖਾੜਕੂ ਤੇ ਨਕਸਲੀ ਲਹਿਰ ਦੀਆਂ ਵੱਡੀਆਂ ਘਟਨਾਵਾਂ 'ਤੇ Ajmer Singh ਦਾ ਅਹਿਮ Interview (Ajmer Singh on the great events of the Kharku and Naxalite movements, on his political autobiography ਖਾੜਕੂ ਲਹਿਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਅੰਗ ਸੰਗ), Pro Punjab TVYouTube

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Sources

Nerion Dithe Sant Bhindranwale, Dalbir Singh Patarkar (Punjabi book listing), Online Sikh Store. onlinesikhstore.com
Nerion Dithe Sant Bhindranwale (book listing), Kitab Expo Canada. kitabexpocanada.com

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