Padma Sachdev

Padma Sachdev (* 1940 in Jammu , India ) is an author of Dogri literature. She also writes in English.

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Padma Sachdev was the oldest of three children in a wealthy family. Her father, Professor Jai Dev Badu, was a Sanskrit scholar who fell victim to the partition of India . She began her education in the elementary school of her home village Purmandal . She began to memorize and recite Sanskrit at the age of four or five. Later she sang folk songs in Dogri in a local women's choir and composed simple verses for this style of music. She began writing poetry in Dogri during her freshman year of college and soon shared the stage with older poets. Shortly afterwards, at the age of 16, contrary to the objections of both families, she married the Dogri poet Ved Pal Deep, who was twelve years her senior at the time . A few months later, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the intestine and spent the next three years in a hospital in Srinagar . At this point she had already made a name for herself with the poem Raja Diyan Mandiyan , which she wrote at the age of 14. This poem, as well as seven of her lesser known poems, were published in a selection of Dogri poetry in 1959. After her recovery, she returned to Jammu and worked there as a performing artist on Radio Kashmir . A little later she separated from her husband, which alienated her from the conservative citizenship of Jammus. As a consequence, she lost her job. Shortly thereafter, she found a new job as a news anchor for a radio station in Delhi . Over time, she married a longtime friend, the singer Surinder Singh . In 1969, at the age of almost 30, she published her first volume of poetry, with which she won the Sahitya Akademi Award . She later published five more volumes of poetry, as well as an autobiography .

Works

• 1969 seven contributions to the Dogri poetry collection Madhukan
• 1976 Tawi Te Chanhaan
• 1982 Nehriyan Galiyan
• 1987 Pota Pota Nimbal
• 1992 Uttarbaihni
• 1999 Tainthiyaan
• 2011 A Drop in the Ocean autobiography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.indiavideo.org/literature/padma-sachdev-dogri-poetry-3786.php
2. ↑ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120617/spectrum/book9.htm
3. ↑ http://www.indiatogether.org/manushi/issue123/shivanath.htm
4. ↑ http://www.indiatogether.org/manushi/issue123/shivanath.htm
5. ↑ http://www.indiatogether.org/manushi/issue123/shivanath.htm
6. ↑ http://www.indiatogether.org/manushi/issue123/shivanath.htm
7. ↑ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120617/spectrum/book9.htm
8. ↑ http://www.indiatogether.org/manushi/issue123/shivanath.htm
9. ↑ http://www.indiavideo.org/literature/padma-sachdev-dogri-poetry-3786.php
10. ↑ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/157947578?versionId=172176751

Web links

• http://www.indiatogether.org