Padma Shri awardee Poet Padma Sachdev Passes Away

• 06 Aug 2021

• Noted poet and novelist Padma Sachdev has passed away on 4 August 2021.
• She is the first modern woman poet of the Dogri language. She also writes in Hindi.
• She has published several poetry collections, including ‘Meri Kavita Mere Geet’ (My Poems, My Songs), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971.
• Her autobiography "Chitt-Chete" in Dogri language won Saraswati Samman in 2015.
• She has also received the Padma Shri in 2001 and the Kabir Samman for poetry for the year 2007-08 given by Government of Madhya Pradesh.