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The perennial yearning in Punjabi poetry, Punjab's landscape and moreover, the quality of light of the space attract an acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and Yoga teacher to a small village where he stays in the village's Dharamshala modified to meet his needs. He became friends with farmers participating in the protest against new farm laws as he took yoga classes at Singhu, the protest site at the Delhi-Haryana border on NH-44.
When he shared his wish to stay in a village of Punjab, one of the farmers invited him to visit his village near Ghanaur, a small town in Patiala. He visited and did some reconnaissance in the nearby villages. He zeroed down to a village, Chamaru as the place offered for stay shares a wall with the government school and has open fields around. He found a new home in a multipurpose hall with an attached kitchen and washroom. Of course he has a big Neem tree in the courtyard. Harpreet Singh, the Sarpanch of the village welcomed him as he found an able ally in him to uplift the school which has 104 students from the underprivileged sections of the society and a single teacher struggling to maintain discipline. Within three months the school has five new teachers and plans to make a music room, science room, maths room and a library there. A committee constituted of people from all over India plans to run programs for teacher training and sensitisation. Here is Navtej Johar living his dream and giving wings to the dreams of people he interacts with at different places in different capacities.
Navtej Johar wears multiple caps and seems equally comfortable with various identities associated with them. He is a Bharatanatyam dancer, Yoga practitioner and teacher, an academician working on urban activism and the human body. Presently he prefers to call himself a Sukh (happiness) Activist as he 'farms happiness in the body.' Living in a small village of district Patiala of Punjab, near Bhakra Canal and a small distance from the border of Haryana he is working with school children and the community at large. Living his life long dream of living in a village, he plans to start his Yoga retreat centre in village Chamaru and get people coming for Yoga involved in the school. In a freewheeling interview with Daljit Ami, Navtej Johar talks about his life and journey. He traces the continuities of Punjabi poetry to foreground the inner softness of the Punjabi people. He contests the prejudices passed on from generation to generation which infect people with ideas of patriarchy and communalism.
The video has subtitles in English, Hindi and Punjabi (Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi separately). For Shahmukhi subtitles please select Urdu as the language. Due to lack of options Shahmukhi subtitles are uploaded as Urdu file.
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