Padma Shri awardee Poet Padma Sachdev Passes Away

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.