ludhiana with an aim to revive childrens literature in punjabi language punjabi sahit academy psa organized a oneday workshop on the topic at punjabi bhawan on sunday the psa also released a translation of the book my childhood written by rabindranath tagorepunjabi writer and president of psa gurbhajan singh gill said punjabi literature has included every age and though childrens literature is not vastly written in the state there are some who have ventured into the genre now we feel there is a much greater need to write literature about and for this section gill said some days ago film director harjeet singh met with a couple of writers and discussed the issue for promoting literature on children we decided to start by translating works of tagore on the occasion of tagores 150th birth anniversary the academy translated 12 of his bengali books he saidinforming that they also found four books of amrita pritam from the psas library film director harjeet singh said dr tejinder kaur jagtar dhiman kamaljeet neelon manmohan singh jasdeep singh bhullar and bhuta singh are some who are writing for children in punjabi film director harjeet said though literature in other languages has concentrated on children punjabi literature is lagging behind even online there are many ebooks available in various languages but in punjabi its raretaking note of the demand punjabi poet surjeet patar assured that punjabi writers community would surely write for children we would soon present a vast collection of punjabi literature focused on children patar said