Sarwanand Koul Premi

Sarwanand Koul Premi

Sarwanand Koul Premi, also spelled Sarvanand Kaul Premi (2 November 1924 – 1 May 1990), was a Kashmiri poet, journalist, research scholar, Gandhian, social reformer and independence activist living in Jammu & Kashmir, India. Along with his young married son, Verinder (27), he was kidnapped, tortured and killed by terrorists in 1990.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

For a few years he worked for the Village and the Khadi Industries Board (a state enterprise) as well as the Industries Department of Punjab. He returned to Kashmir and joined the education department of Jammu and Kashmir as a teacher from 1954 to 1977.[7]

Published work

  • Kalami Premi
  • Payami Premi
  • Rood Jeri
  • Osh ta Vush
  • Gitanjanli (Translations)
  • Russi Padshah Katha
  • Panctchadar (poetic collections)
  • Bakhti Koosum
  • Akhri Mulaqat
  • Mathur Devi
  • MIrza Kak (life and works)
  • Mirza Kak Ji Wakhs
  • Kashmiri ki beeti
  • Bagwat Gita (Translations 1)
  • Taj
  • Rupa Bhawani[8]

Death

News report on Mr. Sarwanand Premi and Virender Premi's murder

On the night of 29–30 April 1990, three armed Islamist militants came to the house of Premi. The militants looted the family of their valuables, taking their gold, jewellery and pashminas, and demanded that Premi accompany the militants back to their commander.[9] Premi’s younger son, Virender, insisted that he come along with his father. On 1 May, the bodies of Premi and his son were found hanging from a tree,[10] about 20 kilometres away from their house. They had been tortured, their bones broken and eyes had been gouged out.[11] Nails had been hammered on their foreheads at the place where Hindus typically apply the tilaka. Their bodies also had cigarette burns and they had also been shot with guns.[10]

Aftermath

A first information report (FIR) was filed at the Dooru police station.[12] Five days after the murders of Premi and his son, the remaining Koul family fled their village in Kashmir for Jammu, where they lived for a few days before moving permanently to Delhi.[13] In August 1998, eight years after the murders, their abandoned family home in Kashmir was set on fire by local miscreants. An FIR was lodged but the culprits were never found.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "A Poet of hope". www.dailyexcelsior.com. 29 April 2017. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Real Tragedy of Kashmir". www.kashmirherald.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "The Unsung Hero of Kashmiriyat - Sarwanand Kaul Premi - Early Times Newspaper Jammu Kashmir". www.earlytimesnews.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Editorjknews. "JKCA pays tributes to the Sarwanand Koul Premi on his 27th death anniversary". jknewspoint.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Banished from Home ~ I - The Statesman". The Statesman. 13 August 2017. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits: What happened on January 19, 26 years ago?". India Today. 19 January 2016. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Pandita, R. (2007). Pt. Sarwanand Kaul Premi. Retrieved from". Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  8. ↑ Kartik Chandra Dutt (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 585–. ISBN 978-81-260-0873-5.
  9. ↑ "30th April 1990 - When prominent Kashmiri Hindu Sarvanand Kaul `Premi' and his son were killed by Islamist terrorists in Kashmir". JK Now. 30 April 2023.
  10. 1 2 Banerjee, Argha (2017), "'Refugee in My Own Country': Trauma and Memory in the Writings of Kashmiri Pandits in Exile", in Majoul, Bootheina (ed.), On Trauma and Traumatic Memory, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 9–28
  11. ↑ Joshi, Manoj, The Lost Rebellion: Kashmir in the Nineties, Penguin India, ISBN 978-8-184-75263-2
  12. 1 2 Thapliyal, Sunil (18 January 2020). "30 years of being refugees in own country". Deccan Chronicle.
  13. ↑ Shali, Pooja (12 May 2020). "Why did terrorists kill my father: Kashmiri Pandit poet's son recalls night clock stopped ticking for him". Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
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