Swarajbir Singh

Swarajbir Singh (born 24 April 1958) is an Indian Punjabi playwright, poet, administrator, and editor.

He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his play Masia di Rāt (2016)[2] He was the editor of the daily newspaper Punjabi Tribune from 31 August 2018 to 13 January 2024.

He was allotted Assam-Meghalaya Cadre[5] and retired as Director General of Police Meghalaya, Shillong in July 2018.

Critic Pankaj K Singh remarks, "Swarajbir's social commitment and humanistic vision make him repeatedly build an interrogative discourse, questioning the unjust ideologies and practices of the dominant classes and clans in myths, history or contemporary reality and raising the voice of the oppressed.

Historian Anshu Malhotra who has analysed Swarajbir's play 'Shiary (Poetry)' along with Shahryar's ‘Piro Preman’ and Vijender Das's ‘Sant Kaviyitri Ma Piro’ writes in the context of that play, “Swarajbir puts his heroine in the feminist mold, even while indicating that feminism may be a ruse to categorise women who don't fit into culturally sanctioned roles”[11] Historian Raj Kumar Hans has analysed his unpublished but staged play ‘Kachi Garhi’ in the historical context; according to Hans, “Swarajbir consciously searches for the counter currents which have been marginalized from established historiography.”[9] Historian Bhagwan Josh has evaluated his play Tasweeran in the historical situation of Punjabi women.