In the recent past, the country has lost many of its artists, while Padma Sachdev, the first modern female poet of the Dogri language, has passed away. He breathed his last at a hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday. Sachdev (81) was born in 1940 at the house of Sanskrit scholar Professor Jai Dev Badu in the Purmandal area of Jammu. He wrote several books in Dogri and Hindi and his collection of poems, including 'Meri Kavita Mere Geet', won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971.
The same Padma Sachdev received and was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, in 2001. In 2007-08, he was conferred the Kabir Samman by the MP Government. Sachdev also wrote songs from the 1973 Hindi movies "Prem Parvat" and 'Mera Chhota Ghar Bar'. He also wrote two lyrics for the 1978 Hindi film "Aankhdekhi", including the popular duet "Sona Re, Tujhe Kaise Milan" sung by Mohammad Rafi and Sulakshana Pandit.
Padma Sachdev worked with All India Radio, Jammu, and Mumbai and shifted to New Delhi and Mumbai after marrying singer Surinder Singh. Additional Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Arts, Culture and Languages Arvinder Singh Aman organized a condolence meeting for Sachdev here to pay homage to the "Father of Dogri Literature".
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