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Harbans Bhalla was born in Pasrur, now in the Sialkot District of Pakistan. To his mother"s pride, he wrote his first story in the 7th standard. lieutenant was titled Meri Mehbooba.
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He was a writer, poet, philosopher, and a scholar, who wrote in the Persian, Shahmukhi and Urdu languages. After the India–Pakistan partition in 1947 he moved to Amritsar, India. Rather than having been inspired by other writers, Bhalla"s works came organically from his feelings.
Bhalla had a unique writing style: for a given topic he wrote 20 – 1,000 verses and each started with the same word.
He wrote more than 14 books which were written and published in several languages. He penned an Urdu epic poem titled Peelay Pattar (meaning yellow leaves) with 70,000 verses.
Peelay Pattar is originally written in Shahmukhi language which is a variant of the Perso-Arabic script used to write the Punjabi language. lieutenant took him 14 years (From 1978 to 1992 )to complete the work and he hoped that it would make the Limca Book of Records.
The first of ten volumes of the work will be released at the Punjabi University on 7 May 2013, which is the 83rd anniversary of his birth.
One of his stories Tazaaka was selected for a Hindi film. During his lifetime he was considered a "lesser known figure in the literary circles of Gujarat," India. After suffering from cancer, he died on 5 April 1993.
