Jasbir: a singer’s credit and a Punjabi author’s name

Jasbir Jassi on a music production

The Purab Mubarak production presents an artist page headed Jasbir Jassi. Its account subsequently uses Jassi, and its recording credits identify him as a singer on Purab Mubarak and Guru Nanak Aaya. This supplies a concrete example of the fuller public form and a shorter form within the same professional record. The Punjabi musical setting is documented by the production itself. It does not follow that every person called Jassi has Jasbir as a given name, or that Jassi explains Jasbir’s origin.[1]

Colonel Jasbir Bhullar in an author record

The Dhahan Prize identifies another bearer as Colonel Jasbir Bhullar. Its biography describes an Indian Army career ending with retirement as a colonel, an MA in Punjabi literature and an extensive body of fiction, including children’s writing. Colonel is a professional title in this record. Keeping it alongside the full author credit helps distinguish this writer from the singer, rather than treating two people with a shared given name as interchangeable examples of one biography.[2]

A specific book and a dated recognition

The prize’s page for Ek Raat Da Samunder places Jasbir Bhullar directly beneath the title and identifies the short-story collection as a 2014 finalist. Its appraisal discusses a storytelling method that draws readers from an intriguing opening into an unfolding scene. It also notes stories concerned with children’s hopes. These observations belong to the prize’s reading of this particular collection; they are not meanings of the author’s name. The appraisal situates the title story in the Andaman and Nicobar islands.[3]

The book record gives a more precise literary reference than a bare list of famous bearers: a full author credit, a named collection, its genre and a dated finalist category. It also distinguishes being a finalist from winning the main prize. None of those bibliographic details establishes a lexical translation for Jasbir.[3]