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Writer Balwant Gargi explained about how his life started and explore the meaning of ekonkar through Santhaya by Nihung Singh during his childhood.

On 4 December 1916 in Neeta Khandan in Sehna, Barnala (Punjab), Balwant Gargi was born in a house in the Neeta Mal street, near the 1800-year-old historical Gobind Fort, famous for being the spot where Razia Sultan was imprisoned. The second son in the family of Shiv Chand, a head clerk in the Irrigation Department, he would go on create history in the world of Indian and Punjabi literature.

Gargi studied at Government College Lahore, and completed his M.A.(English) and M.A.(Political Science) from FC College in Lahore.[1] He also studied theatre with Norah Richards at her school in Kangra Valley.

Gargi was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award, the highest Indian literary award, in 1962 for his book Rang Manch.[3] This was followed by the Padma Shri[4] (1972), and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Punjabi Playwriting in 1998.[5] Gargi is one of the few artists to win both the Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akademi awards.

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