Balraj Sahni

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Date of birth
City of birth
Rawalpindi
Country of birth
India
Current name country of birth
Pakistan
Date of death
Dates of time spent in Britain

1939-43

Location

London

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About

Balraj Sahni worked in London as a Hindi-language broadcaster for the BBC's Indian Section of the Eastern Service. His wife Damjanthi Sahni also worked for the BBC. Before moving to London, Sahni had worked with Gandhi in 1938 and taught Hindi and English at Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan.

He became a successful movie star in India after independence.

Connections

Mulk Raj Anand, Z. A. Bokhari, Indira Devi, M. K. Gandhi, Narayana Menon, George Orwell, Damyanthi Sahni.

Organizations
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