Amarjit Chandan: to the fallen soldiers of the First World War
b'AMARJIT CHANDAN\\nAmarjit Chandan was born in Nairobi in 1946 and studied in India at Panjab University, coming to Britain in 1980 to live in London. He has published five collections of poetry and three books of essays in Punjabi notably Jarh\\u0101n (poems) and Phailsufi\\u0101n and Nish\\u0101ni (essays). He has edited and translated about 30 anthologies of Indian and world poetry and fiction by, among others, Brecht, Neruda, Ritsos, Hikmet, Cardenal, Martin Carter and John Berger in Punjabi.'