Managing Director, Rajwant Bagri known as Rajwant Raj to his readers and admirers. Raj is multi-talented as he is famous ghazal poet and a novelist. Raj is winner of Shiv Batalvi award for poetry and Kahan Singh Nabha award for poetry. Raj’s publications include both poetry and novels: Rangshaala (Ghazal), Raagnia(Ghazal), Peondh(Novel) Tutte sitaare chugdian(Ghazal), Varole di joone(Novel). Raj has mentored poets Amandeep Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Navpreet Kaur, and Baldev Seehra.

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Secretary, Davinder Gautam is known as Gautam to his readers. Gautam is a ghazal poet and he recites his poetry as well as he sings his poetry at performances. Gautam has published his poetry book 'Supne Saun na dinde' (Ghazal)

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Public Relations, Hardam Maan is a ghazal poet and he is in media relations as a journalist. Hardam has published his books 'Ambran di bhal vich' and  'Seeshe de Akhar'. Hardam is a winner of Punjabi Sahit Patiala Award, Deepak Jatoyee Manch Award Jaito, Sahit Sabha Kotkapura, and Punjab Bhawan.

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Preet Manpreet was born to father Karamjit Singh and mother Baljit Kaur at village Manawan, district Moga. He is an academically qualified writer with MA Economics and B. Ed. He is also a member of 'Ghazal Manch Surrey'. He has been residing in Surrey, British Columbia since 2006. This young poet's first book 'Ruttan, Dil Te Sufne' (Page 112) has reached the readers only last year, which also contains poems and ghazals.

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Dashmesh Gill Feroze is a poet who writes beautiful poetry in both Urdu and Punjabi languages. He moved to Canada in 1990 and is now a resident of Canada. In Urdu poetry he is influenced by Sahir Ludhianvi, Kaifi Azmi, Ali Sardar Jafri and Javed Akhtar and in Punjabi poetry by Surjit Patar. He is quite active on social media. His Urdu and Punjabi ghazals are often seen on Facebook. Two of his poetry books: 'Ikhtalafat' and 'Firoz' have been published.

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Senior Mentor, Krishan Bhanot is a ghazal expert and an Arooz specialist. Mr. Bhanot is respected internationally in the poetry world for his invaluable contributions. He received Dilbar Singh Noorpuri and Life time award Toronto. Mr. Bhanot published numerous poetry books and books on how to write ghazal: 'Mehak de hathaakhar', 'Talkh pal', 'Jal tarang', 'Sone di sleeb', 'Chup da sangeet', 'Umar de varke', 'Viang Leela', 'Ghazal di bantar te arooz'
Mr. Bhanot has mentored poets locally and internationally including Rajwant Raj, Davinder Gautam, Jass Malkeet, Bindoo Mathaaru, Neelu Germany, Gurmit Sidhu, and Sukhjit Kaur.

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Baldev Seehra was born in Punjab and adopted his mother tounge punjabi from there. He did his higher studies in botany. In this subject, he continued to be a professor at Sri Guru Gobind Singh College. Then while migrating to Fiji, he continued to teach the same subject there and finally reached Canada. According to him, his poetry began with the letters he wrote to his wife after marriage. Baldev, has so far penned the following five books: 1. Adhure Khaab (compositions) 2. Baraf banya han(Ghazal collection) 3. Fasle (Ghazal Collection) 4. Dhaldi Sham (Ghazal Collection) 5. Khali beriyan(Ghazal Collection)

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Advisor, Sukhjit is a Ghazal poet, and she enjoys writing Nazms, the quality of her work placed her in prestigious writing groups with established writers. Sukhjit has been writing privately for several years and she has recently decided to share her poetry publicly. Sukhjit gravitates towards societal issues in her poetry such as addiction, the challenges that immigrants face when assimilating into Canadian society & culture, addiction, female infanticide, the selective abortion of female fetuses, 1947 partition, 1984 genocide, discrimination, and the problems of a multi-generational family unit. Sukhjit writes from a unique perspective to raise awareness and initiate conversation to bring positive change in society. Sukhjit is the first female member of the Executive Ghazal Manch Surrey team as the team is committed to female representation and inclusion.

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