Chaturang Katha-E-509-Heer Ranjha

Heer Ranjha

HEER-RANJHA is a romantic idyll of the Punjab countryside which has fired the imagination of villagers. The Songs of Heer, their mixture of joy, pain and ecstasy, from a poetic lament that is mixture of joy, pain and ecstasy, from a poetic lamnet that is unmistakably. Sufi in charactor and Ranjha's love for heer has as a spritual, mystical quality that is in the best Sufi tradition. The most popular written version is by the eighteenth-century poet, Waris Shah.Ranjha was a simple country lad whose life was made up of bright mornings followed by lazy, sun-drenched afternoons when he took the cattle out to pasture. His father's death changed all that. Young, dreamy and something of a poet, he left his village to court Heer - of the distinguished Syal clan. Heer's beauty is legendary. She was vital, vibrant, earthy like a field of ripening wheat or flowering cane. And there were very few to equal her in farming and household skills. To this day, in the Punjab, She stands for all that is most desirable in a woman. How Ranjha meet Heer, and how she became his sole pursuit, his whole universe, is the story of this pastoral romance. We have retold Heer basing it mainly on Waris Shah, but blending with it folk elements belonging to the oral tradition. in days gone by, as many versions of Heer-Ranjha as there were bards who told the story of spell-bound village audiences.

• Title                       : Heer Ranjha
• Serial No.              : 509
• Pages                    : 36
• Script                     : English
• Publisher               : India Book House Pvt. Ltd.
• First Published in : ......