Ram Sarup Ankhi

DOB : 28-08-1932
Date of death: 14-02-2010
Lived For : 77 Years
Star Sign : Virgo
Gender : Male

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Ram Sarup Ankhi, also known as Ram Sarup ji, was born on 28 August 1932, at Dhaula , Barnala district of Punjab Provinces, India, was an Indian writer, poet and novelist who wrote in Punjabi language. He completed his education from Government Mohindra college, Patiala. He started his career as a poet but ended as a fiction writer. He was also a school teacher and got retired in 1990. He is a writer of 15 novels, out of which 8 are story books and five poem collections . As Ram Sarup Ankhi was basically attached to his agriculture beliefs , he usually used to write about the village life of Punjab and also wrote about the indebtedness and drug addiction issues related about farmers suicide.

Many of his books and short stories are adopted into films. His novels is made into Punjabi featured film also. He is also the awardee of “Sarv Shresht Sahitkaar Award” 2009, and also received “Sahitya Akademi Award” for his novel ‘Kothe Kharak Singh” in 1987. Most of his writings are a cluster of 50 villages in the Malwa Region. His most famous writing were , Partapi, Kothe kharak Singh( which was a story of three generations based on a fictional village in Punjab. His renound Autobiographies were “ Malhe Jharhian” 1988 and “Apni mitti de Rukh” 2004. Ankhi also portrayed the cause of farming society in a realistic way and tribulations and tensions of the poor farmers in his literary works. Ankhi being in a old age, had been writing at least one book in a year. The novel of his bring into sharp focus, the sympathic role of the Kisan union. Ankhi ruled the number of literature reader. He always opted to write in his mother tongue only. Ankhi had died on February 14^th.