and is now on the advisory board of Chetna, a Vancouver-based organization promoting minority rights and opposing Casteism. He has served on Canada Council and British Columbia Arts Council juries to award literary grants. Rode was given the Best Overseas Punjabi Author award by the Punjab Languages Dept, India in 1994. Guru Nanak Dev University honored him with the "Prominent Citizen (literature)" award and the G.N. Engg. College with the "Poet of Life" award the same year. In Canada he has been honored with awards for Punjabi theatre and translation. Original works Vishava Di Nuhar, prose, Punjabi University, Patiala, 1966 Dooja Passa, one act plays, 1981 Komagata Maru, full-length play, 1983, 1999, 2013, Blue Meditations, poetry, 1985, Poems at My Doorstep, poetry, 1990, 2017, Surti, poetry, 1989, 1979, Shubhchintan, poetry, 1993, 2012, Leela, poetry, 1999 Nirlajj, drama, Aesthetics Publications, India, 2008 Pash Da Sath, prose, 2016, published by WEB, Patiala Balbir Singh Bhangu (Life and Music), Libros LIbertad, Surrey, 2015, Selected Poems, Third Eye Publications, London, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2017, Chonvi Kavita, poems, Third Eye Publications, London, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2017, A Journey With The Endless Eye, Ekstasis Editions Canada Ltd., 2014, Drama Plays written and directed Dooja Passa (one-act play) One Girl One Dream (one-act play) Visa (one-act play) Komagata Maru (full-length play) One Girl One Dream (movie script) Nirlajj (full-length play) Chetna (co-author), Third Eye publications Turi Wala Kotha (direction), Stair to Nowhere (reading), The Fragrant Grass (full-length, unpublished, readings) Rebirth of Gandhi (full-length play in English) Village of Men (6 TV scripts in English and Punjabi), produced by Abbotsford Community Services, 2007 Translations The Last Flicker, Novel, 1993 Desire, poems, 1999 One Hundred One Surrealist Poems, 1996 Bird Talk, children's story 2001 Calendar Poems, poems, 2003 Dukh Sukh, poems, 2005 Editing Punjabi Poetry of Canada, co-edited, 1980 Canadian Punjabi issue of the Preet Lari, 1986 Munch Katha, co-edited, 2002 Om Parkash, 2005 References External links Ajmer Rode (Archived 2009-10-24) Interview on poetry 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Indian emigrants to Canada Canadian writers of Asian descent Canadian people of Indian descent Living people Translators to English 20th-century translators 21st-century translators Canadian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian male writers Year of birth missing (living people)