# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pash
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:27:40.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pash"
name: "Pash"
slug: "pash"
description: "Avtar Singh Sandhu, who wrote under the pen name Pash, was an Indian poet, one of the major poets in Punjabi of the 1970s. He was killed by Sikh extremists on 23 March 1988. His strongly left-wing views were reflected in his poetry."
tagline: "Punjabi poet (1950–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Avtar_singh_sandhu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-09-09"
deathDate: "1988-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.98
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.118146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AA%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC"
    title: "ਪਾਸ਼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pash"
    title: "Pash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6_(%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF)"
    title: "पाश (पंजाबी कवि)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "پاش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "پاش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pash"
    title: "Pash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3694942"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump